Ode 8. Irmos.

Of the Cross and Resurrection. Irmos.

The Chaldean Tyrant insanely made the furnace blaze seven times more fiercely for those who reverenced God; but when he saw they had been saved by a greater power he cried aloud to the Creator and Redeemer, ‘O Youths, bless, you priests, praise, you people, highly exalt him to all the ages’.

Another, of the Mother of God. Irmos.

The supreme divine power of Jesus’ godhead has shone out in what is ours in a manner fitting God: for having tasted death on a Cross in the flesh for all, he abolished the strength of Hell. Without ceasing, O Youths, bless, you priests, praise, you people, highly exalt him to all the ages.

The Crucified has risen, the boastful has fallen, the fallen and crushed has been set upright, corruption has been banished and incorruption has blossomed; for mortality has been swallowed up by life. O Youths, bless, you priests, praise, you people, highly exalt him to all the ages!

Godhead of triple light, single radiance shining out from one three-personned nature, Begetter without beginning, Word of the Father, one with him in nature and kingship, consubstantial Spirit, O Youths, bless, you priests, praise, you people, highly exalt him to all the ages.

The One who stretched out his hands on the Tree to me who had been stripped naked and who calls me to warm me with his noble nakedness, all you his works, bless the Lord and highly exalt him to the ages.

The One who raised me, the fallen, out of the lowest Hell, and honoured me with the high-throned glory of his Begetter, all you works of the Lord, bless the Lord, and highly exalt him to the ages.

You appeared as a daughter of fallen Adam, but also as Mother of the God who renewed my nature. All we his works sing his praise as Lord and highly exalt him to the ages.

Quench the seductive and fiery darts of those who are our foes, that we may sing your praise, pure Maiden, to the ages.

Beyond nature, O Virgin, you gave birth God the Word, Creator and Saviour; therefore we sing your praise to all the ages.

The unapproachable Light, who dwelt in you, O Virgin, showed you to be a shining, gold-gleaming lamp to all the ages.