Odes of Solomon

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THE ODES OF SOLOMON IO9 John to the people: "See me in yourselves, in the same way as any one of you sees himself in water or in a mirror" ; and so he confirmed the saying of Solomon about Himself, that "He is tlie unspotted mirror of the Father.'" Here we have the doctrine of dual vision in a mirror, as though the mirror saw the observer as well as the observer the mirror ; in this way the Father sees Himself in the Son and the Son sees Himself in the Father: and then we are told of something said by John, speaking in the person of Christ, in a lost epistle, that we are to see Christ in ourselves as in a glass. This is something like the doctrine of our Psalm that we are to see ourselves in Christ. If we could really be sure of the correctness of the reference of the supposed Cyprianic tract to St John, we should have more confidence in saying that here also we are in the region of Johannine ideas: but, even in that case, there would seem to be no question of direct quotation from canonical Johannine writings \ ODE 14. ^As the eyes^ of a son to his father, so are my eyes, O Lord, at all times towards thee. '^For with thee are my consolations {lit. breasts) and my delight. ^Turn not away thy mercies from me, O Lord : and take not thy kindness from me. ^Stretch out to me, O Lord, at all times thy right hand : and be my guide=^ even unto the end, according to thy good pleasure. ^Let me be well-pleasing^ before thee, because of thy glory and because of thy name : ^ let me be preserved from evil, and let thy mieekness, O Lord, abide with me, and the fruits of thy love. ^Teach me the Psalms of thy truth, that I may bring forth fruit in thee : ^and open to me the harp of thy Holy Spirit, that with all its notes I may praise thee, O Lord. ^And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, so thou shalt give to me ; and hasten to grant our petitions ; and thou art able for all our needs. Hallelujah. 1 The passage in Ps. -Cyprian is so curious, that for convenience I transcribe the Latin: De Mont. Sina et Sion 13: 'Ita inuenimus ipsum Saluatorem per Salomonem speculum inmaculatum patris esse dictum, eo quod sanctus spiritus Dei fihus geminatum se uideat, pater in filio et filius in patre, utrosque se in se uident : ideo speculus inmaculatus. Nam et nos qui illi credimus Christum in nobis tanquam m speculo uidemus, ipso nos instruente et monente in epistula lohannis discipuli sui ad populum: "ita me in uobis uidete, quomodo quis uestrum se uidet in aquam aut in speculum," et confirmauit Salomonicum dictum de se dicentem, "quis est speculus inmaculatus patris.'" 2 Ps. cxxiii. 2. =* Ts. xlviii. 14. -iva.piarilv, ivalk before God, as Enoch, Gen. v. 24 etc. ; cf. Peshitta. 4 _,