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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode V

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Send down upon us Thine enlightenment, O Lord, and free us from the gloom of transgressions, O Good One, granting us Thy peace.

¶2

Driving away the gloom of ignorance with the enlightenment of reason, thou didst lead a company of athletes to the Lord, O wise Codratus, and wast crowned with them.

¶3

Theotokion: He Who fashioned Eve out of Adam’s rib, O all-pure one, is in His loving-kindness conceived of thy pure womb, desiring to save Adam, in that He loveth mankind.

¶4

Having first put down the revolt of the passions through fasting, thou didst then destroy the might of the ungodly, having suffered most mightily, O martyr Codratus.

¶5

The dry rock hath been filled by the shedding of thy precious blood, and giveth forth splendid streams unto the faithful, sanctifying them with its divine outpourings.

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

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