Ode 4. With foreseeing eyes.

Wise fathers, making the laws of the Spirit your meditation, you received the practical laws sent to you from Rome, and unfolding them by the light of the Spirit, you firmly estab­lished the Church.

Another. You, Lord, are my strength.

Let us the faithful garland with hymns the divine assembly of the God-bear­ing Fathers, for they proclaimed to us the incarnate Word as both God and man, with two energies and two cor­responding wills.

All-wise Fathers, you rightly over­threw Honorius, once greatly puffed up on the throne and rule of old Rome, and finally proclaimed him unworthy of both throne and rule.

O Virgin, who gave birth,  to the empersonned Word of God and true Light; open the eyes of my soul, I pray, and make me a partaker of the brightness that comes from him; for you are his mediator and advocate.

Explain to us, insane and foolish Severos, how the light without be­ginning, the Word and Son of the Father is one composite nature; for if you spoke thus, you would signify another nature; for the flesh and the Word are not one essence, wretch, but two.

In saying one incarnate nature of the Word, the teacher and chief of the Alexandrians propounded a human nature wholly without change and confusion, clearly teaching the two natures and wills to those who wish to think as orthodox.

All we the faithful proclaim two na­tures of Christ unconfusedly, denouncing utterly all the impiety of Eftyches and the senseless Dioskoros, as we follow the definition of the Holy Fathers and the words of god­like Cyril.

You, Mother of God, are the Cheru­bim chariot; you the place and you the dwelling of the Father’s Word and God, who put on flesh from your immaculate womb; and so as we worship him who was incarnate from you in two essences, we glorify him.