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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode IV

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I have heard of Thy glorious dispensation, O Christ God, how Thou wast born of the Virgin, that Thou mightest save from deception those who cry: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

¶2

Laboring and struggling at night, thou didst magnificently walk upon the waves, illumining the darkness with thy prayer as with a pillar of fire, and crying out: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

¶3

Theotokion: Thou didst issue forth, born of the all-immaculate Virgin, to save men, O Christ. Her didst thou choose beforehand from among all creation of ages past. Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

¶4

Irmos: With divine sight the prophet perceived Thee, O Word, Who wouldst become incarnate of the only Theotokos, the mountain densely wooded; and with fear He glorified Thy power.

¶5

Hell, that place of great evil, gnashed its teeth at thee, stirring up a storm of blasphemy and reproach against thee; yet, wounding its head with thy humility of mind, thou didst cry aloud: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

¶6

Theotokion: Being the peer of Thy Father in essence, Thou wast the peer of men in nature, having received our flesh from the all-pure Virgin, O Master.

¶7

The holy elder, hearing report of thy struggles, was amazed, and greatly desired to behold thine honored face; yet, unable to see thee with the eyes of his body, he perceived thy spiritual exaltation and cried: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

¶8

Being wholly a treasury of evangelical gifts, full of grace, O most blessed Simon, thou wast a light for the world and salt to savor the universe.

¶9

Thou didst turn away from matters of shameful manifestation, O right wondrous one, and wast vouchsafed to behold the immaterial light of God Who took upon Himself the matter of humanity as a guise.

¶10

O Simon, disciple of Life incorruptible, slay thou our living sin with the life-bearing power of the Bestower of life, the activity whereof thou didst receive.

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

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