Ode 4.

Making your mind ruler of the passions and guided by inspired deeds you accomplished the good way and devoutly drove off the ambushes, villainies and knaveries of the demons, wisely choosing the better part.

You submitted to the light yoke of Christ and instructed by fear of God and purified in body and soul you became an argument of purity and sobriety, a definition of self-control, a seal of dispassion and an image of love, Athanasios.

Having shared in our own culture and that which is from without, with great love of wisdom you distinguished in each that which is suitable and advantageous, fortified by justice, wisdom, humility, understanding and courage, and conspicuous by the other gifts of grace.

Carried with awe on the backs of the Cherubim, the Master dwelt in your womb, Pure Virgin, as on a throne of fire, and by assuming flesh he made human nature divine, as Athanasios, famed among ascetics, teaches, O only all-praised.