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Ode 9
We shall never know surely whether the wars referred to here are spiritual or actual outward wars.
1Open your ears and I will speak to you. Give me your souls that I may also give you my soul,
2The word of the Lord and His good pleasures, the holy thought which He has devised concerning his Messiah.
3For in the will of the Lord is your salvation, and His thought is everlasting life; and your end is immortality.
4Be enriched in God the Father, and receive the thought of the Most High.
5Be strong and be redeemed by His grace.
6For I announce to you peace, to you His saints;
7That none of those who hear may fall in war, and that those again who have known Him may not perish, and that those who receive may not be ashamed.
8An everlasting crown for ever is Truth. Blessed are they who set it on their heads:
9A stone of great price is it; and there have been wars on account of the crown.
10And righteousness hath taken it and hath given it to you.
11Put on the crown in the true covenant of the Lord.
12And all those who have conquered shall be written in His book.
13For their book is victory which is yours. And she (Victory) sees you before her and wills that you shall be saved. Hallelujah.