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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode VII

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Once, in Babylon, the youths who had come forth from Judæa trod down the flame of the furnace with their faith in the Trinity, chanting: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!

¶2

Contemplating the second coming of the Judge, thou didst put the dream of despondency away from thine eyes, O wise one, and, saved, didst chant: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!

¶3

Theotokion: O pure and blessed Lady, who for the world gavest birth to God incarnate, save my soul, which hath mindlessly become enslaved to unseemly sins, that I may glorify thee.

¶4

From earliest infancy thou didst choose the good portion, O wise father: to labor for the Lord with fear and to follow His precepts, chanting: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!

¶5

God set thee in the granaries of heaven like ripe wheat, full of the ways of the Spirit, O God-bearer, for thou dost chant: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!

Translated by Isaac Lambertsen. Edition menaion.en.lambertsen.

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