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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I will open my mouth, and with the Spirit will it be filled; and I shall utter discourse unto the Queen and Mother, and shall appear, keeping splendid festival; and, rejoicing, I will hymn her wonders.

¶2

Let us praise today our God Who is over all things, and let us also praise His martyr, who contended lawfully and won the crown of victory with the power of the Spirit.

¶3

Theotokion: Christ the Lord, to Whom thou gavest birth, O most immaculate one, is my strength and song and the enlightenment of my heart, and He is known to exist in two natures and in a single hypostasis.

¶4

Arrayed in the power and grace of Him Who clothed Himself in our weakness, O glorious and divinely blessed martyr, thou didst strip bare the vainglorious arrogance of the weakness of idolatry.

¶5

Rejoicing, O glorious one, thou didst proclaim the triple Unity united in a single essence, and didst destroy the falsehood of polytheism, suffering steadfastly, O divinely blessed one.

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

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