Odes de Salomão — Ode 19

1A cup of milk was offered to me: and I drank it in the sweetness of the delight of the Lord.

2The Son is the cup, and He who was milked is the Father:

3and the Holy Spirit milked Him: because His breasts were full, and it was necessary for Him that His milk should be sufficiently released;

4and the Holy Spirit opened His bosom and mingled the milk from the two breasts of the Father; and gave the mixture to the world without their knowing:

5and they who receive in its fulness are the ones on the right hand.

6[The Spirit] opened the womb of the Virgin and she received conception and brought forth; and the Virgin became a Mother with many mercies;

7and she travailed and brought forth a Son, without incurring pain;

8and because she was not sufficiently prepared and she had not sought a midwife, (for He brought her to bear), she brought forth, as if she were a man, of her own will;

9and she brought Him forth openly, and acquired Him with great dignity,

10and loved Him in His swaddling clothes, and guarded Him kindly, and showed Him in Majesty. Hallelujah.