Ode IV

Irmos: Thou didst come forth from the Virgin, neither a mediator nor an angel, but Thyself incarnate, O Lord, and hast saved me, the whole man; wherefore, I cry to thee: Glory to Thy power, O Lord!

Thou didst desire to reach the gates of heaven; therefore thou didst wait patiently at the gates of the great Anthony until he accepted thee as a disciple and fellow ascetic. Wherefore, thou dost abide with him in paradise.

Theotokion: We hymn thee who didst reveal the fulfillment of the images and shadows, who didst give birth without corruption to the Expectation of our fathers and forefathers, O Virgin Theotokos.

Irmos: Thou art my strength, O Lord, Thou art my power; Thou art my God, Thou art my joy, Who, without leaving the bosom of the Father, hast visited our lowliness. Wherefore, with the Prophet Habbakuk I cry unto Thee: Glory to Thy power, O Thou Who lovest mankind!

Acquiring the faith of Abraham, and receiving in thine old age from God the promised fruit thereof, the gladness of life equal to that of the angels, thou didst set at naught all the wiles of the hater of mankind, O venerable father.

Theotokion: O all-pure and most blessed one, who art adorned with the splendors of virginity, thou gavest birth to the infinite God Who became finite within thy womb. Wherefore, we all truly praise thee, the Theotokos, and glorify thy birthgiving.

Having quaffed a cup of temptations more bitter than the waters of Marah, and loving the sweetness of the tree of the Cross with all thy heart, thou didst crucify thyself with Christ God in thine obedience. Wherefore, receiving gifts of grace from Him, thou hast wrought great and wondrous things.

With godly words of oratory thou didst adorn the choirs of the faithful and didst gladden the sacred assembly of the apostles, O divinely wise Hierotheus, working with divine wonder and chanting: Glory to Thy power, O Thou Who lovest mankind!

Thou didst dedicate thyself to God wholly and in every way, O blessed one, approaching Him in the sacred discourses of theology, as a divine hymnographer manifest in sanctity and a wise herald of God, O thou who pleased God in manifest sanctity, being sensibly chosen for those present.

Now most clearly beholding things divine, more sacred than all transitory indistinct images and shadows on the earth, and the most true divine vision of effulgence, O father, pray thou, that they be saved who chant with faith: Glory to Thy power, O Thou Who lovest mankind!