Ode 5. With your divine radiance.

With the streams of your tears, blest Father, you completely dried up the sea of pleasures; and by the outpouring of your teachings you overwhelmed the torrents of heresies.

Your mind, Father Ephrem, lighted by its inclination towards God, became wholly Godlike, receiving like a mirror the immaterial reflections of the divine Spirit.

You became, Father, truly a temple of the Trinity, adorned with grace, radiance of pure virtues and sincerity of teachings.

By the assault of the serpent, evil tasting of the tree pronounced me dead in Eden; but you alone full of God’s grace have given me life, for you bore Christ the giver of life.