14 Love me with affection, ye who love: (ODE) 15 For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine; (ODE) 16 For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal: (ODE) 17a I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby. 181 took pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them: 19 For my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts: 20 Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there that is not subject to them? 21 I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones: (ODE) 17b 22 And my righteousness goeth before them and they shall not be deprived of my name, for it is with them. 23 Ask, and abound and abide in the love of the Lord, 24 And yet beloved ones in the Beloved: those who are kept, in Him that liveth: 25 And they that are saved in Him that was saved; 26 And ye shall be found incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Hallelujah. (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 8:14–17
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