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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Overwhelming power once laid low the whole army of Pharaoh in the deep, and the incarnate Word hath destroyed pernicious sin. All-glorious is the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified.

¶2

Theotokion: Granting the world deliverance from the ancient curse, the Redeemer is born of thee, O Virgin, He Who hath shown the venerable Patapius to be a wellspring of healing for all who have recourse to him in faith.

¶3

I pray thee, O venerable Patapius: Beseech the Lord Who driveth away the clouds of ignorance, that He grant a ray of grace from heaven unto me who wish to praise the splendid corrections of thy radiant life.

¶4

He Who of old covered the Egyptians with the deep by a divine gesture, drawing thee forth as from the abyss of the world’s turmoil illumined thee with divine splendors and showed thee forth as a most radiant star, O venerable father.

¶5

Burning with the fervor of the Spirit like a noetic coal, O venerable one, thou didst drive away the gloom of the demons and didst quench the fiery darts of sin; and most pure wast thou led to the summit of dispassion.

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

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