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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode IV

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of Thy dispensation; I have understood Thy works, and have glorified Thy divinity.

¶2

Thou shinest forth in thy words and illuminest the world with thy sufferings; and thou drivest away the opposition of the tyrants as though it were insubstantial gloom.

¶3

Theotokion: Past all understanding is the mystery of thy birthgiving, O Ever-virgin; for, having conceived God in thy womb, thou gavest birth to Him at His ineffable word.

¶4

By thy faith thou didst show thyself to be a new Abraham, like him who of old was justified in Christ; for in thy recognition of thy Creator thou didst spurn all vanity.

¶5

Having acquired thee as a destroyer of falsehood and a physician of painful passions, O glorious martyr, we the faithful ever delight in thy healings.

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

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