Ode 5. Christ who enlightened.

Christ declared you, God-bearing Fathers, to be lawgivers guiding the new Israel, like Moses, and like him drowning the hostile Pharao in the dread deep of destruction.

Another. Why did you thrust me.

How excellent and radiant the Synod of the Fathers! For having learned that Jesus is one, yet composite, it proclaims to all the ends of the earth that as God and man his energies are double.

Reckoning the writings from Rome to be a gift from God, the wise Teachers established upon them the tower of true religion, proclaiming the energies and natures of Christ to be double.

Paul and Peter have been refuted, together with Theodore, with Pyrrhus, Sergios and Honorius, who most shamefully maintain the confusion of Christ’s natures by the confusion of his energies.

Maiden, you are all enlightenment and radiance, for you were declared to be the sacred enclosure of the unsetting enlightenment; therefore I beg, Mother of God, enlighten the eyes of my soul with your light.

Lawless Severos, do not dreadfully confound the natures of Christ; for all the worshippers and all-blessed Teachers in their preaching have set forth Christ in two natures and one person.

The Word of the Father without beginning, as he loves mankind and wished to take pity on us who had perished, clearly assumed human nature; therefore I proclaim him to have two essences and wills.

The fourth Council condemned Severos and Dioskoros, who blasphemed Christ, by confirming the Tome of Leo, Bishop of Rome, who most excellently defined the two na­tures of the Saviour without division.

Having obtained a mother’s boldness towards your Son, O All-pure, do not disregard our natural intention, we beg; for we Christians put you alone forward to the Master as a kindly appeasement.