Ode 8. The Irmos.

Of the Saint. The same Irmos.

“God the Word, who sustains all things by his ineffable wisdom and brought them out of nothing into being, bless him as Lord, all you works of the Lord”.

On the eighth day the Master is circumcised as a babe and receives the name Jesus, because he is the Saviour of the world and Lord.

The all-glorious memory of the High Priest is fittingly linked with the nativity of Christ; as we honour it with faith we hymn the Lord.

Him who gave Basil to the world in his ineffable providence as a light of true religion and trumpet of theology, bless him, as Lord, all you works of the Lord.

Him, who with abundant activity made his dwelling in wise Basil, and through him preached true theology, bless him, as Lord, all you works of the Lord.

We, who unceasingly enjoy your godlike words, Basil, as we keep festival in your memory, cry out: Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord.

You sent out into the world, Basil, the beams of your words, which lighted it to honour one nature of the Trinity, as it cried: You his works, bless the Lord.

God the Word, who came forth from the Father before the ages and beyond time, and who in these last days dawned from a Virgin, bless him, as Lord, all you works of the Lord.

’The furnace in Babylon, as it poured forth dew, revealed a marvellous mystery: that the Jordan was about to receive in its streams immaterial fire and contain the Creator as he was baptised in the flesh; whom peoples bless and highly exalt to all the ages’.

’Creation knows that it has been set free;

Those once in darkness are now sons of light.

Alone the captain of the darkness groans.

The whole inheritance of nations that

Was once in misery, blesses the cause.’