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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode VII

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: When the golden image was worshipped on the plain of Dura, Thy three youths spurned the ungodly command, and, cast into the midst of the fire, bedewed, they sang: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

¶2

Theotokion: The most divine God Who was born of thee, O Virgin, doth deify me, having Himself taken on the guise of a servant; and He restoreth the paths of knowledge as the bounds of nature, leading along them a multitude of monks and the venerable, who chant: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

¶3

With noetic fire thou didst inflame the senses of thy soul; thou didst reduce the fire of sin to ashes by the activity of the Spirit, and wast shown to be radiant, O Patapius, singing: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

¶4

O divinely blessed one, who opened the eyes of the blind with divine assistance, O divinely blessed one, thou didst heal divers passions and by the invocation of God didst repel the wicked legions of the demons, chanting: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

¶5

O father, thy tomb hath been shown to be an abyss of wonders, a river of healing, and an ever-flowing wellspring, a stream which is never exhausted, for those who approach it with faith and cry out fervently: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

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

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