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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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Irmos: Having traversed the water as though it were dry land, and escaped the evil of Egypt, the Israelite cried aloud: Let us chant unto our Deliverer and God!

¶2

The Church of Christ, right beautifully arrayed with a robe empurpled in the blood of the martyrs, boasteth in the passion-bearers and is adorned.

¶3

Theotokion: By thy birthgiving, O pure Theotokos, have we who are born on earth truly been upborne from earth to the heights of heaven and numbered among the angelic choirs.

¶4

Receiving invincible power from God, O passion-bearer Thalalæus, thou didst battle alone against myriads of enemies in the struggles of ­martyrdom.

¶5

Having cast aside the matter of the flesh and lived the life of the immaterial ones on earth, O Thalalæus, thou hast been numbered among the angelic choirs.

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

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