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Ode IV

Menaion — translated by Isaac Lambertsen

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¶1

Irmos: I have heard, O Lord, the mystery of Thy dispensation; I have understood Thy works, and have glorified Thy divinity.

¶2

Emulating a lamb led to the slaughter, O holy Edward, thou didst not struggle against the malefactors who slew thee, but surrendered thy soul into the hands of God in a moment.

¶3

Theotokion: The divine prophets have announced thee, O Theotokos; the apostles have proclaimed thee; the martyrs have confessed thee, and the hymnographers and the venerable have hymned thee in songs of beauty divine.

¶4

Celebrating thy joyous memory, we call thy wonders to mind, O Edward, for thou dost heal the leprous, the paralyzed and those who are blind from birth, by thy most bold supplication unto Christ.

¶5

Desiring to glorify thee openly, Christ God bestowed healing power upon thy precious relics, that, beholding the miracles worked thereby, the pious people may praise the Lord forever.

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

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