Ode 6. I cried from my whole heart .

The unsleeping guardians of Christ’s Church cried out, asking him that she be given peace. He heard and was attentive to their prayer.

Both now. Theotokion.

The game traps of the deceiver have been exposed by the teachings of the Fathers, and God, who is uncircumscribed in his Godhead, formed in flesh is praised.

Ode 7. We have sinned, we have offended .

Fellow workers of error, be ashamed! And let Theodotos and Lizix and Theodore, that abyss of destruction, be destroyed with Antony.

Both now. Theotokion.

You opened your mouth, you wretch, not in spiritual songs, but in blasphemies against your Master, rejecting the honourable fashioning of Icons.

You overthrew the doctrines of the Fathers and the teachings of the Apostles, writing against them in accordance with your lawless cult, John, enemy of Christ.

The smoke of your tears filled the eyes of the devout; but with the wind of the godly Teachers they have been dispersed, demented John.

You ripped apart the divine robe, like Arius of old Christ’s tunic, therefore you have been cast out of the Church like a dog.

I glorify one source of Godhead in three hypostases; for God is one, Father, Son and Spirit; though distinct in characteristics and persons.

Prophetically, Pure Maiden glorified by God, you were revealed as City of God, from which your Maker was born, preserving you after childbearing as you were before.

Divine grace has now quenched the furnace of heresy, consuming the spiritual Chaldeans, bedewing the servants of the Trinity, who had been held in its flames for four weeks of years.

The Church is adorned, robed, made fair with the form of the Master of all things, of his incarnation and sufferings, bearing their symbols to the end, in accordance with God’s laws.

The Lord’s people that bears Christ’s name celebrates, keeps festival, seeing the Church once again resplendent with the beauty of the divine form, which, though being God, he bore as human in order to save us.

In flesh the Word was poor and hungry and thirsty, these being the attributes of the human nature, through which he is circumscribed; though in hid Godhead he is simple and uncircumscribed.

The monstrosities and wizardries of the enemy of Christ have been destroyed, for he has been revealed as equal of the Greeks, inflated by their writings, which the voices of the just have utterly destroyed.

What tongue will recount your most damaging and soul destroying doctrines or the utterance of your belly, falsely named John and forerunner of the Antichrist Satan?

There was no need for you to be so named, but rather Pythagoras, Chronos, and Apollo, whose manner of life you rivalled, delighting in your impieties.

Eternal, all-powerful, beyond understanding; we believers all worship a Trinity, Father, Son and Spirit, and let us confess them without confusion as we cry, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy are you, O God!’

Sure Bridge for Christians, the boast of the faithful and their refuge; Sovereign Lady, Mother of God, you alone are she that helps all and saves them from dangers.