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Ode 41
We discover that the writer may be a Gentile (v. 8).
1All the Lord's children will praise Him, and will collect the truth of His faith.
2And His children shall be known to Him. Therefore we will sing in His love:
3We live in the Lord by His grace: and life we receive in His Messiah:
4For a great day has shined upon us: and marvellous is He who has given us of His glory.
5Let us, therefore, all of us unite together in the name of the Lord, and let us honour Him in His goodness,
6And let our faces shine in His light: and let our hearts meditate in His love by night and by day.
7Let us exult with the joy of the Lord.
8All those will be astonished that see me. For from another race am I:
9For the Father of truth remembered me: He who possessed me from the beginning:
10For His bounty begat me, and the thought of His heart:
11And His Word is with us in all our way;
12The Saviour who makes alive and does not reject our souls-;
13The man who was humbled, and exalted by His own righteousness,
14The Son of the Most High appeared in the perfection of His Father;
15And light dawned from the Word that was beforetime in Him;
16The Messiah is truly one; and He was known before the foundation of the world,
17That He might save souls for ever by the truth of His name: a new song arises from those who love Him. Hallelujah.