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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

Come ye, and together let us faithfully praise today with mystic hymns Martinian, the faster who fasted well and lawfully; for which cause he hath received from Christ a crown of victory.

¶3

Theotokion: Having conceived the Son of God in thy womb by the Holy Spirit and become pregnant without the aid of man, O pure one, thou alone amongst women wast both Virgin and Mother; and with the blessing of the Father thou gavest birth unto Him without seed.

¶4

Kept unwavering by the fear of Christ, O father, like lightning thou didst dispel the terror of the foe; for thou wast fearful to them in thine endurance of abstinence, and didst remain unshaken by their illusions, O all-praised one.

¶5

By the saving power of Christ didst thou pass easily through the demonic temptation inflicted upon thee in the visitation of the woman, O father; and, saving her, thou didst wound the author of evil through her.

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

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