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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode VIII

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Stretching forth his hands, Daniel shut the lions’ mouths in the pit; and the young lovers of piety, girded about with virtue, quenched the power of the fire, crying out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!

¶2

As a sacrifice made perfect by the fire of witness and consumed by the flame of wounds, thou didst offer thy body and mind unto Christ as a wholeburnt offering, crying out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!

¶3

Theotokion: We have thee as a radiant portal to heaven, through which God passed. He Who before was incorporeal, consubstantial with the Father, became incarnate. To Him do we cry out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!

¶4

Pursuing thine enemies even while tortured, thou didst cast them down, O venerable father; and thou didst trample upon the foolishness of the arrogant one, looking upon the savage ones who tormented thee, and crying: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!

¶5

Thou hast appeared to us as an artist excellent in teaching, O thou who art most rich; for thou didst most courageously pass from asceticism, which thou first endured, to sufferings, having Procopius as thy fellow athlete, who cried out: Bless the Lord, all ye works of the Lord!

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

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