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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

Burning with steadfast thought, thou didst pass the flame, O glorious one, as the three youths passed through the furnace bedewed by the immaterial fire; and thou didst remain unconsumed, crying out in the midst of the fire: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

¶3

Theotokion: O all-pure Virgin Mother, thou alone hast been shown to be the unwedded Mother of God Who hast wrought all things in wisdom. Wherefore, piously crying out to thee, O all-immaculate one, we chant: Blessed art thou who gavest birth unto God in the flesh!

¶4

Blessed art thou, and good it is for thee who hast made thine abode where the mansions of the righteous are, where are the armies of martyrs, and where the choirs of the wise apostles cry aloud: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

¶5

Souls that before were made barren hast thou brought to Christ as most fruitful, having laid them low with the cultivation of the Spirit and set comely seed therein, instructing them to chant with thee: Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!

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

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