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Isaac Lambertsen

Ode I

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: Overwhelming power once laid low the whole army of Pharaoh in the deep, and the incarnate Word hath destroyed pernicious sin. All-glorious is the Lord, for gloriously hath He been glorified.

¶2

Theotokion: The invisible Sun Who shone forth from the Father before time began and through thee became all-gloriously circumscribed by a visible body, O Ever-virgin Mother, hath illumined men with the light of piety.

¶3

Canon of the venerable one, the acrostic whereof is: “I hymn the splendor of thy miracles, O most blessed one”, the composition of Theophanes, in Tone II —

¶4

With the serenity of thy splendor illumine me who am eager to praise most joyously thy luminous and radiant life, O blessed father, and drive away from me the despondency of sin.

¶5

Removed from the flesh and the world, O blessed one, rejoicing, thou didst cleave to God with all thy being; and through asceticism thou didst preserve thy mind untroubled and steadfast, joining thyself to Him with the divine dispassion which cometh therefrom.

¶6

Illumined with the splendid rays of the unoriginate and uncreated Godhead, thou didst not choose the false belief of thy father, but, turning away from his greatly confused ignorance, didst unite thyself to the Trinity alone.

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

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