5 And His thought was like a letter; His will descended from on high, and it was sent like an arrow which is violently shot from the bow: (ODE) 6 And many hands rushed to the letter to seize it and to take and read it: (ODE) 7 And it escaped their fingers and they were affrighted at it and at the seal that was upon it. (ODE) 8 Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal: for the power that was over the seal was greater than they. (ODE) 9 But those who saw it went after the letter that they might know where it would alight, and who should read it and who should hear it. (ODE) 10 But a wheel received it and came over it: (ODE) 11 And there was with it a sign of the Kingdom and of the Government: (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 23:5–11
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