Odes of Solomon/Ode 41

For the Father of Truth Remembered Me

¹ All the infants of the Lord will praise him,

and will welcome the firmness of his faithfulness,

² and his children will be known to him.

So let us sing in his love!

³ We live in the Lord by his steadfast love,

and life we receive by his anointed one.

⁴ For a great day has shone upon us,

and wonderful is he who has given to us of his glory.

⁵ Let us, therefore, all agree together in the name of the Lord,

and let us honor him in his goodness.

⁶ And may our faces shine in his light,

and let our minds study his Love, reading it in a low voice by night and by day.

⁷ Let us exult in the exultation of the Lord!

⁸ All those will be amazed who see me,

because I am of another kind.

⁹ For the Father of truth remembered me,

he who gained me from in the beginning.

¹⁰ For his wealth conceived me,

and the thought of his heart,

¹¹ and his speech, she who is with us in all our way,

the savior who makes alive and does not reject our souls.

¹² The man who was humbled and exalted by his own righteousness,

¹³ the son of the Most High has appeared in the fullness of his Father,

¹⁴ and light dawned from that speech which was in (the Father) from of old.

¹⁵ The messiah is one with the Truth,

and he was known from before the foundation of the age.

¹⁶ To make souls live forever by the truth of his name,

a new hymn to the Lord from those who love him!

Hallelujah!