Ode 7. We faithful know you.

Acknowledging you the Son of God and Son of man, the choirs of theologians of old proclaimed you, Master who love mankind, as double in wills and energies, confident in the duality of your two natures.

Another. The fire in Babylon.

You appeared as a bright adornment of the Church, for you received the ordinances of the Apostles and taught all the word of truth: one Lord in Trinity, creating, acting, willing, all-powerful.

Of the Trinity.

Acknowledging God to be uncreated light and immortal life, beyond these you excellently proclaimed him to all, knowing the natural properties lower  than nature to at once co-natural and undivided.

Christ sent you out into the world as lightning flashes of divine light utterly burning up the creators of error, enlightening all the blessed Church, glorifying God, praised and all-powerful.

Christ, the highly exalted, the light that knows no evening came forth from your womb and saved the world of old. Implore him, Mother of God, to enlighten the spiritual eyes of my darkened heart.

Confessing Christ to be in two natures and energies without confusion and without change, we reject the error of Severos. Therefore we cry to him who underwent suffering by the assumption of the flesh: Blessed is the God of our Fathers.

We know that he on the Cross and he in the bosom of the Father is one, as God in the highest and in the grave as united to flesh. To whom with one accord we sing as we cry: Blessed is the God of our Fathers.

Believers, hating the emptying and division of Areios, the diminisher of God, and again the fellow heresy of Sabellios, those enemies of the Trin­ity, we cry: Blessed is the God of our Fathers.

We proclaim you Lord of all teaching with right belief that you are Father of one only Only-begotten Son and acknowledging one right Spirit, pro­ceeding from you, equal in nature and co-eternal.