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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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Irmos: Traversing the deep on foot, as though it were dry land, and seeing the tyrant Pharaoh drowned, Israel cried aloud: Let us chant unto God a hymn of victory!

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Theotokion: O pure one, thou gavest birth to the uncircumscribable Word, Who became circumscribed in a human body. Him do thou beseech, that those who glorify thee be delivered from corruption and the assault of the passions.

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Standing before the throne of God, arrayed in the beauties of martyrdom and resplendent with divine effulgence, O passion-bearers, illumine us who hymn your memory.

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Desiring divine beauty, ye reckoned the beauties of life to be as nought, O athletes of Christ; and dying in body, ye have been vouchsafed to receive life without end.

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Denouncing the falsehood of idolatry in godly manner, O passion-bearing martyrs, ye endured the burning of manifold pangs and have now attained the life which is devoid of pain.

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

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