Opening
HYMNS OF SEVERUS OF ANTIOCH AND OTHERS
SYRIAC VERSION EDITED AND TRANSLATED
The following text is taken from two Brit. Mus. MSS., Add. 17,134 (A) and 18,816 (B), which contain James of Edessa’s revision of the Syriac
version of a collection of Greek hymns, most of which are aseribed to Se-
bishop of Edessa, while living in Cyprus to which he had fled before the
verus of Antioch. This version was accordin made by Paul Persian invasion. As the only well-known bishop Paul of Edessa died in 526, it has been supposed that there is some confusion with the archimandrite Paul, the translator of Gregory, who was in Cyprus in 624°; but it is ineredible that James should have made such a mistake, and, as in his chroniele he mentions a Paul bishop of Edessa contemporary with the Persian invasion and states that many eastern bishops fled to Egypt before the Persians°, and as we know that on the conquest of Egypt many of its inhabitants took refuge in Cyprus, it is obvious to identify this Paul with our translator, and the date of the version many therefore be fixed at 619-629. It was not a literal rendering, but contained alterations and interpolations made for rhythmical purposes; and therefore in 675' James of Edessa made a revision of it, in which literal translations were inserted above the line and interpolations were distinguished by red paint. OF the pre-Jacobean text no MSS. seem to survive, and the actual recension of James exists in the two above-mentioned MSS. only, though collections based upon it are found in a large number of Brit. Mus. MSS. described in Wright, p. 340-358, in Vat. Syr. 94, Paris Syr. 337, Oxford Syr. 351, Cambridge Add. 1993,
and others. In all of these the hymns are in different order (no two, as far
2. Wright, Cat. Brit. Mus., p. 336, n. 1. 3. Chronica Minora (Corp. Script. Chr. Orient.), p. 324.
as 1 am aware, agree), and many others are added; and they are no doubt recensions made for liturgical purposes, which also appears from the fact that the hymns are arranged according to the 8 tones to which they were set : whence the collection is often known as the Octoechus, though in the two chief MSS. the tones are not mentioned except in a few places, where they seem to be later additions '. None of these later recensions contains the prosphorie hymns*. The correetions and painted letters are not found in B, except in part of hymns 131 and 132; but, as B often gives a better text than A, Wright’s conelusion that A is an autograph of James cannot be accepted, though from the handwriting it cannot be much later, while B is of the 9" cent.
The chief value of the work of James however lies in the fact that he gives the seriptural references in full in the margin, thus supplying a new source for the eriticism of the sacred text. In the NT. the citations are all from the Peshito except in some passages from the Acts, where another text seems to have been used, while in the OT. they are sometimes from the Peshito, sometimes from the LXX, sometimes from neither, and 1 cannot trace any principle except that in Genesis they are from P, in the rest of the law from LXX, in Job and in the books not contained in the Hebrew from LXX, in Daniel from Theodotion, and in Isaiah in the earlier hymns generally from P, in the later generally from LXX°. In the Syriac text I have given all eitations in full; but in the translation, where they come from P, I have given only the variations from Lee’s text, except in the Psalms, where I have used that of Barnes, and the Gospels, where I have used that of Gwilliam as the standard. The eitations are always from P except where the contrary is stated : in such cases they are translatel in full. In B, except in hymns 131, 132, only references, not citations, are given. This is sometimes done by A also, and in these cases I add the words ‘ not quoted '.
Of the liturgical MSS. I have used Brit. Mus. Add. 14,514, 17,136, MSS., for photographs of the last two of which I am indebted to the kindness of M® Graflin, but I have not except in a few places given their variants. The
varjants of A I have given throughout, but, to save space, I have not gene-
1. For the sake of comparison with other recensions I have given the tone (third of the numbers preceding the text), wherever I could learn it from other MSS.
2. A few are in Brit. Mus. Add. 18,819, but in another version.
3. As James’ own recension was made later, we cannot expect any connexion with it, nor, as far as] Lave been to compare it, have I found any. In very few cases there is some resemblance to the Syriac Hexaplar.
rally given those of B except where supported by some other MS. The painted words and letters are represented in the text by estrangelo type and in the translation by italies, and the corrections of James are placed in the notes, the beginning of the passages to which they refer being indiecated in the Syriac by Tand in the English by!; but in the latter case the printers have in some places substituted |, which elsewhere denotes missing or illegible words supplied by conjeeture.
Id. note 22. Read ‘ B aaa '. end. ld. vers. 1. 8. For © who suffered ’ read | P. 104 note e. For pasa> read pasa>. ‘ by suffering '. P. 1061.13. For pas: read paax. ‘ brave'. P. 122 vers. 1. 6. After ‘ things’ ins. ref. P. 24 vers. 1.4. After ‘ praise’ ins. ‘ thee'. to note ‘ Aa. Ps. cıv, 24 (not quoted) ; Peorsyers.l. 7. Kon“ 3 ’read“ 1”. also ref. to xrın '. P. 26 note 5. Read‘ A asus; B pl. '. | P. 127 note 1. For as» read assan. P. 42 vers. 1. 16. After of the ins. hymns | P. 130 note d. For „nso; read ‚„.nso. of the. Id. vers. note3. Om. ‘ who. P. 45 note 1. For es) κι; read «al... In| P. 132 noteb 1. 8. 4. For‘ (sic) wis} Jam’ the notes substitute [1 for |, , and ΓῚ read “ fa.nı (510) arj2r '. throughout. P. 1341. 10. After us, ins. ref. “δ᾽. P. 53 note 1. For wasas read „sasas. P. 138 vers. note 6 1. 2. For ‘ guite ’ read velount. of you '. P. 66 vers. 1. 13. For atls read also. P. 157 note d. For ‚oaio read \ozass. P. 77 note g. For joas, read am. P. 1701. Δ. For ai» read .aspe. P. 81 vers. 1.5. Om.!. P. 1731. 7. For jso read yo. Ρ. 88 notee. For u» read >. P. 1741.2. For au read aa... Id. noteg. For „ı read ırı. P. 1771. 1 of notes. For sie read osjop. P. 96 vers. 1.13. For ‘ beaven ' read ‘ hea- | P. 1781.3. For „oaaszä> read „oan,äs.
Brit. Mus. Ms. Add. 17,184.
Brit. Mus. Ms. Add. 18,816.
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THE FIRST LINES AND NUMERAL SIGNS OF THE HYMNS OF HOLY SEVERUS, PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH.
The first section, on the Natiwity of Christ our Sawiour.
Ι 1. When the new covenant was about to begin.
2 2 \Vhat mind or speech or hearing.
3 3 O!the wonderful and divine pangs.
A 4 The Son and Word of God, who filleth all things. > 5 ΤΠ Shepherd of the heavenly spiritual hosts.
6 6 No couch of intercourse with a man.
7 7? Isaiah, when he learned beforehand the mystery. 8 8 The birth of Emmanuel in the flesh. _
9 9° Inthe wish to see with the eyes of my mind.
That God the Word in a manner inexpressible.
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5. A prefix + — 6. A |Nxo. Il 11 That the conception in the womb of Mary the Virgin. 12 12 Agreat wonder! he who is the Maker.
I3 13 After the expulsion from the blessed life. IA 14 Let those who are intoxicated with the dreamlike.
On the holy day of the Manifestation of our Lord in the flesh.
[ὃ 1. Lo!againa festival, again another example.
16 2 A great wonder! he who by his inexplicable birth. 17 3 Very great is the richness of the kindness of God. 18 4 In proof that it is for our eleansing only.
19 5 Who would not wonder at the boundless sea.
20 6 Wonder not if you see Christ.
21 7 When the only Word was born in flesh.
2) 8 Divine in truth is.
253 9 Christ, even God, who by means of the water.
24 10 With the hidden eyes of the mind I seem.
25 11 The Son and the Word of God, after he had.
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7. A leaf lost in A, extending to no. 73. 7°. Ms. hatis2.
Again hymns on the holy fast of Lent.
Let all of us who wish to enter.
Since by reason of our sin of disobedience. Let us, who were created in the image of God. At this time especially we ought.
The holy fast becomes all things to all men. Ye that are diseased and take your delight. Let us keep the pure mirror of the holy fast. Though the course of the days of the fast.
Ye that have tasted the fast by.
Again hymns on the miracles which our Lord did. The first on the leper. On the man blind from his mother's womb. The Creator, who placed in the man who.
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On the stricken woman. 32 d The stricken woman thought in faith. On the paralytie. 38 4 Hethat had been paralyzed in his limbs. On the centurion. 39 5 He that fashioned our hearts alone. On Simon Peter’s mother-in-law. 40 6 Even in things that were performed. On the miracle in the ship. Al 7 Though thy God-befitting miracles. On the harlot. 42 8 The evil and abominable love which. On Jairus’ daughter. 43 9 Even to Jairus the head and ruler. On the two blind men.
τ 10 \Vhen Christ was passing by a certain place. On the man whose hand was withered. 45 1 The people of the Jews that is fond of.
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mark of abbr. — 11. Ms. |Laıms.SL0.
On the Canaanite woman. On the widow’s son. 47 18 Imasmuch as thou art God and knowest.
On the man who had a legion in him.
48 14 Once, when thou camest as man into.
49 15 When thou wast about, Christ, God.
On the man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
5052167 Acman, having left Jerusalem.
Again hymns on the holy feast of Hosannas.
on 1 Come ye now, children of disobedience.
52 2 What shall we admire ofthe things that.
53 3 Very great is the depth of the holy. _
54 4 The God of the prophets, of whom David sang. 55 5 Yethatare desirous of spirituallv meeting.
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‚Joa Saal Jo], ost (aa
.}}}}» INu,o NET Nr „sol
‚waljlass oldul Vor ol
„gadsho Jo Lunaso Kram vs
6 If, when Jesus the Saviour οἱ all was sitting. 7 When of thine own will and with desire.
Again hymns on Judas the traitor. 1 Ifthe devil, while holding the rank. % From the acts themselves which thou didst. 3 Allthe eircumstances ofthy coming.
Again hymns on the holy ointment. 1 Thy eximanition, Christ, wherein. 2 Moses, who spake to God.
Again on the holy washing on the day of the mystery. 1 To-day the mystery of love is given more. Again on Pilate’s wife.
1 By allmethods, Christ, God, even in things.
Again on the robber. 1 The robber by passing many nights without.
.a2059 Ja. Sr [Nuss ol ‚Jais Sa Ay yAanoy oo ke m S ‚kurs ho, Nr [Nuss Sol . Ja 1,3) Jun ad Jaras oa > . ?jna,o sau! Nr |Auusso „yNsaro 2,00 „las „as „Dr no Te oo on Again hymns on the saving Passion. 66 1 Though there are very many methods of. 67 2 The signs, ΟἹ Saviour, that happened after. 68 3 The mad and blasphemous multitude of. 69 4 \Vho:is there who could fitly praise. τῷ 5 Lord, who walkest on the wings. Again hymns on the Holy Cross. 72 2 \Vhen I am bowed down to the earth. 73 3 Thy eross, ΟἹ Christ, contains the whole. 7A 4 When thou hadst broken the bars of ıron. Hymns on the Holy Resurrection. 75 1 Thy life-giving Passion, even before. 76 2 Since awoman was the cause. 77 3 He who alone hath immortality.
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44. A Ser with mark ofabbr. B adds μ»,0. — 15. A 5, —- 16. A om. B adds he.
5 The gladness of the Holy Sunday enlightens.
81 7” Christ, even God, the Sun of righteousness.
In like manner as the hart from thirst longeth.
89 In the night our spirit eagerly arises early. 84 10 Hethat releaseth them that are bound and. 5 11 3ehold! therefore what is good or what is.
Again hymns before the reading of the gospel on the night preceding Sunday.
36 1 Ye that have honoured the resplendent and. 87 2 In the light-elad and life-giving night.
Again hymns after the reading of the gospel on the night preceding Sunday. 88 1. Οὐ ears have been filled with joy. 89 2 {|| riches ofthe words! Ὁ.
Again hymns on the entry into the baptistery.
90 1 All ye who have been enligchtened.
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91 2 Come speedily, ye peoples, let us go.
Again hymns on persons baptized. Ye that by enlightening baptism have been. Ye that have been admitted to holy baptism. When I look at the children of the laver. A great wonder! they who once. Ye that have been clad in the garment of. Christ who dwelleth and walketh in them. The holy church, having understood and seen. If there is joy in heaven even for one sinner.
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Ye who through the laver of repentance appear. Though you are stripping off the raiment that is.
Again on the Holy mid-Pentecost. 102 1 When the festival was at its midst.
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Again on the Holy Ascension of our Lord.
103 1 Thou, God, who bowedst the heavens and. 104 2 The Word who is before the ages.
105 3 The Word of God, who shone on us. 3 106 4 Though the only Son of God, the Word. E 107 5 The hosts of heaven shook with amazement. Again a hymn on the genuflexion of Pentecost. Ϊ [08 1. Christ, even God, who suflered a voluntary. Ϊ Again hymns on the Holy Pentecost. H 109 1 Thou wast made known aforetime through. N 110 2 Moses in one place signifying though in mysterious. ἃ 112 4 Alter the Ascension of the great God and Saviour. ἶ 113 5 He who once spake through the holy prophets. x 114 6 When the divine apostles were carrying. ;
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Again on the babes who were slain by Herod at Bethlehem.
Over the slaughter by Herod that was unjustly. Christ, the Word of God, through whom.
Hymns on the holy God-bearer.
\While celebrating the memory of the Resurrection.
A great wonder! she who borrowed the rib. Thee, God-bearer and Virgin, one might very. \Vhen a man looks toward thee, God-bearer. \Whenever we lift up the thoughts of our mind. Aforetime God by moulding dust from the earth.
Again on the holy John the Baptist. All ye who wish to honour. When the world was in many ways. Now again also the voice of the Forerunner. The tree of my soul that is devoid.
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„use mabols Kurs Ns Sol
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Judas (sol ya „iursaaso 2 0 Ἷ Again on Ihe holy Stephen the martyr. 197 1 With the first combatant and leader. 128 2 Stephen, the beginning of martyrs, even. Again on the holy and divine apostles. 129 1 Apostles of the truth and preachers and teachers. Again on the holy Paul the Apostle. 130 1 Paul the great among apostles more than all. On the holy John the Evangelist. 131 1 The preacher and apostle, John the Evangelist.
On the holy Mark the Evangelist. 132 1 The divine Mark, the true disciple.
On the holy John the Evangelist and on Thomas the Apostle. 133 1 John the Theologian by resting.
On the holy Thomas the Apostle alone. 134 1 When we celebrate tlıy commemoration, apostle.
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On the holy and divine prophets. Thee, Christ, Saviour of all, who without seed.
On the holy Zechariah the prophet. Zechariah the prophet, who foresawest and.
On the holy Job the righteous, |the man of many confliets '.
Wonderful truly is God in his saints.
On the holy Leontius the martyr. Very great in truth is the mystery.
On the holy Romanus the martyr. Isaiah the great among prophets foretold.
Which point to admire the more among the things.
On the holy Babylas the martyr. Let no man be surprised at seeing that Babylas. The great and divine apostle Paul.
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On the höly Sergius and Bacchus. 1 Sergius and Bacchus the soldiers, when they 2 He who is pricked in his soul by the sting.
On the holy Sergius alone. 1 While the illustrious Sergius was readily.
On. the holy Menas the martyr. 1 The illustrious and mighty martyr of Christ.
On the holy Simeon of the pillar. 1 The sublime and great height of the life.
On the holy father Antony the monk. 1 Of the bloodless and fleshless combat and of.
On the holy Maccabee martyrs.
Very great is the unerring hope of the resurrection.
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LEO) ee ws LADE. LDs 35. A pam. - 36. Α DE — 37. A IngsD- — 38. A pl. On the holy Egyptian martyrs. 151 1 \Whence comes it that Egypt which. On the holy Persian martyrs. 152 1 Christ, even God, who called and broug
On the holy Gentilian martyrs. 155 1 The erafty astute tyrant Julian.
On the holy Homerite martyrs. 154 1 Who shall tell thy mighty deeds, Christ.
On the holy forty martyrs-
155 1 Τί band of the forty martyrs, strengthened.
156 2 For the wrath which by reason of our sins.
157 3 Jeremiah the prophet, the wonderful in revelations. 158 4A Ο! how much higher and more sublime is.
The valiant soldiers who contended in the line.
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39. B om. 9. — 40, Aloul. _ 41. A we830 B om. — 12. A La. — 13. A LS M2. — 44. A IDsaum.
On the saint and martyr Thecla. !
160 1 Christ, who speaks in Paul. Ν On the saint and martyr Drosis. ἢ
101 1 It is not right for us not to praise Christ. Y 162 2 The equality of honour in the divine calling. ἢ On the holy martyr Euphemia. ;
163 3 The triumphant martyr Euphemia. a
On the saint and martyr Pelagia. 5
164 1 The valiant martyr Pelagia. )
Hymns on the holy martyrs in general.
165 1 The blessed memory of the martyrs. F 167 8 The valiant martyrs and soldiers of Christ.
168 4 The grievous tyrants brought and led down.
All ye who are inelined and disposed.
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170 6 Thou, Lord, didst command us through the Gospel. 171 7 The divine David, prophet and king, once.
172 8 Thou hast taught us through the divine.
173 9 Thou gavest a law to thy disciples.
174 10 Thy holy martyrs confirmed thy unerring.
175 1 Lord, thou saidst to the holy apostles.
177 13 Thy wonderful birth in flesh from.
178 14 The courage of the holy martyrs is a picture.
On the holy fathers. When we celebrate your memory, saints.
On the holy Ignatius the martyr. 180 1 Thou who didst appear in a flame of fire.
On the holy Peter, archbishop of Alexandria and martyr. 181 1 In celebrating the memory of saints.
LSA Baums kurs IS .L>3055 doll: DEREN) oo τ .5.0 ‚Jo ad ware Do p em On the holy Gregory the Wonder-worker. 182 1 When the holy apostle was reckoning. On the holy Athanasius the great of Alexandria. 183 1 The Son of God and the Word who became. On the holy Basıl and Gregory. 184 1 He who has heard the theological teaching. On the same and on Ignatius the God-clad. 185 1. Ye that yearn to be inheritors of the kingdom. 186 1 Those who penetrated and reached also. On the holy Porphyry, bishop of Antioch. 187 1 Itisthe work ofteachers and dispensers. On the holy John Chrysostom. 188 1 Joannes, the wise in divine doctrines.
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189 2 When I consider what.
On the holy Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, and Theodosius the king.
190 1 The prophetie horn of oil of anointing.
On the holy Severus, patriarch of Antioch.
191 1l The doctrines of Severus, the wise and great. 192 2 The virtues and glories of the saintly Severus. 193 3 \Vhen we celebrate the memory of the wise. 194 4 The great column of the church and true.
On the holy Peter, patriarch of Antioch. 195 1 The servant of God and great high-priest.
On the holy Julian, patriarch of Antioch. 196 1 Julian, having been filled with wealth of.
On John the archimandrite, son of Aphthonia.
197 1 The great head and chosen governor of.
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On the holy apostolie church. 198 1 Bless and keep the Catholie church, O! Lord. 199 2 Thy cchurch, ΟἹ Christ, is a haven of peace.
On king Constantine the great. 200 1 Not of men nor through man.
On Honorius the king. 201 1 With David the divine king.
On Gratian the king. 202 1 David the divine prophet and king.
On Theodosius the king, the elder, and on the holy hundred and fifty. 203 1 As after the God-loving illustrious.
On the graves of strangers. 204 1 When we lift up the hidden eyes.
Hymns after the reading of the gospel before the oblation. 205 1 Thou who by the sprinkling of thy living and.
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Again prosphoric
Thou hast bathed us in thy merey, Christ, God. Restraining the turmoil of our soul by mysterious. The many-eyed beasts hide their faces from thee. It is in truth meet and right that we should bless. Thou hast filled thy holy church, ΟἹ God, with.
The first on the Nativity or Epiphany, To-day above in heaven the companies of the angels.
Again on the Resurrection. Christ our Lord hath risen from the grave. A great mystery! the great King of all the ages. No longer now appears thy victory, death.
Another on the Ascension and on Pentecost. The Word was lifted up on high and,
hymns before reception when the holy mysteries are performed.
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68. B om. From (his point Ihe numbers in B are one short. — 69. A hie! — 70. A 1 >A» On the holy martyrs. 216 1 The festival of the holy martyrs is the joy. On the God-bearer. 217 1 The festival of Mary the God-bearer'. On the holy fathers. 218 1 The commemoration of saints is accompanied by. 219 2 The Lord preserveth the souls of his holy ones. 220 3 May the righteous be for a blessed remembrance.
Again others for every day.
991 1 \Vhen we receive the living body and.
222 2 The Lord’s body and the all-holy blood.
223 3 The revered body is placed before us and.
224 4 The ineflable mystery of God is set ready.
225 5 Hasten we, believers, to partake of and to receive.
1. This heading is omilted in B, and the hymn is not given in either MS. From this point the numeration in the text of the hymns is one short of that in the index.
. EN Dann Nil rl: ml τ . „jo Jon dur hPs> .‚PBuaamis|s hPRs> 226 6 This holy mystery is true food. 227 7 Christ, even God, having in his merey. Other prosphoric hymns when the mysteries are received. The first on the Nativity. 228 1 Ye that are about to receive. On persons baptized. 229 1 _Yethat have been anointed with the holy. On the Holy Ascension. 230 1! Ye that see the glory of the Lord. At the commemoration of the God-bearer Mary. 231 1 Let us not have the eye of our mind. At the commemoration of martyrs. 232 1 _Honouring the memory of the combatants. At the commemoration of bishops. 233 1 _Honouring the holy memory of his ministers.
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75. B |dea>. — 76. A om. B ILjel. This and the following Lille and heading are transposed in A. 234 1 Let no one here, my brethren, think that. Another after reception before the bishop. 235 1 Having received abundant pleasure. Others after reception of the holy mysteries. The first on the Resurreetion. 236 1 By keeping the feast ofthy Resurrection [rom. Others for every day. 237 After enjoying the reception of the bloodless sacrifice. 238 As soon as we have been admitted to the reception. 339 Our mouth has been filled with joy and our tongue.
May my mouth and my thoughts be filled. Open my mouth and fill it with thanks to thee. Open my mouth, Lord, and fill it.
I have received thy holy body; similarly also.
Lift up the gates, rulers among you; and.
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Again hymns on the subject of wrath. Inasmuch as we think of the multitude of. If thou be not jealous for thy glory. Lord, from the ends of the earth we hear of signs. Lord, our eyes have dropped water like. Martyrs of Christ, even God, who with your blood. Lord, since we are walking in new. Valiant and illustrious soldiers of the great king.
While expecting to receive salvation from thee. By reason of the gloomy darkness and heat. That it is because of our follies and the evil.
Another, that was repeated after Epiphany. Having been illuminated by the rays ofthy.
Another, of thanks for the giving of rain. Lord, when calling us to penitence.
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‚Asp yo] mas Ale: 0 Liss
‚Nino Mao aus; 5a
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Nas, JA I: )anwasıs' | SA so Ss om
Again hymns on earthquakes. Lord, who hast stretehed out the heavens as. How long, O! my soul, wilt thou be sunk. The threat of thy wrath is dispelled. Thou hast raised the rods of many.
Christ, who through thy Cross broughtest the world.
Again on ancient earthquakes.
262 1 We celebrate the memory of the ancient chastisement.
On Vitalian the tyrant. 263 1 The wicked have no cause of joy or.
On the attack of the Huns. 204 1 Remove not because of our sins thy holy altar. 265 2 Lord, by reason of our lawlessness the ropes of Sheol.
On the war with the Persians. 266 1 O!apostles of Christ and prophets and holy martyrs.
Jen,» Li» yo ua AL u} ‚hadmss;lo Kapll So Laut; ©! Nr Je bla Yadı adul, son
wo Loos hl min „Aso| τ ER
„analı )asopo Var
‚aul;so ns [Museo Sol
The peoples have known, Christ, God, that. We give thanks before thee, merciful Lord.
On the Brumalia, Ifthe city of the believers is above in heaven.
If one backward look only When I see the wantonness of excess.
When he returned from a visitation of monasteries. - When I turn my thoughts to those.
On the ninetieth Psalm. He who eries tothe Lord with the Psalmist prophet.
Again hymns of admonition The suprasensual and grievous commander of. Thy judgment-seat, Christ, God, is not deceived,
Jh Jedolı Id soil, <> „una; wor loas Je; gm
‚bar kads |Nası Lamas
„si ben "Las yo
276 3 I am smitten in my soul by some passion.
277 4 Very unstable are the judgments of men.
278 5 Ifatest is applied to the righteous through.
279 6 My heart is erushed within by reason of my sins. 280 7 Our Saviour has bestowed upon me thoughts. 281 8 Good and gentle is thy yoke and thy burden.
282 9 Keep me without scathe from the burning darts.
283 10 Ye who have bowed vour necks to submit to. 254 11 Ye who have fled to the high and suprasensual. 2855 12 Very great is the power of thy mereifulness. 28 14 When I hear thee saying through.
288 15 A valley of weeping is this world.
289 16 From the strange seed of tares which.
290 17 Wherefore, ΟἹ my soul, while turning away. 291 18 My soul has passed through the sore rush of.
‚Jess a3 > Null, EN I ar 292 19 Because you have not refrained and checked. 293 20 When the days of this my weary life. Again morning hymns. 294 1 Grant, Lord, that we may declare to thee a faith. 2.95 3 Thou hast said, Lord of all, « I desire merey. 296 3 I hear the divine sceripture telling us not to. 297 4 Lord, who by becoming incarnate madest thyself poor. 298 5 I have done iniquity and sin so much as to trample on. 299 6 I have heard thee, Lord God, in the wish. 300 7 It is not from trusting in our deeds of righteousness. 301 8 Lord, inthe morning I sing to thee. 302 9 In the nights have I lifted up my hands to the heights. 303 10 Atthe coming ofmorn, Christ, God. 304 11 Thebright splendour of the service has washed. 3057718 The sin which I have committed hyssop cannot. 306 18 Me who have been eleansed by the water.
phil so wo so un Ja τ. .Jasir |Muuso Sol 308 15 At daybreak let us bless and praise God. 309 16 The light praiseth thee, Lord of all. ΒΞ. ἢ 27 Lord, who hast made the light to shine upon us. 31427418 Invariable light and brightness. 312 19 Since it is to the greatness ofthy merey and. 313 90 The sacrifice ol a whole burnt-oflering | present. 314 21 Create a clean heart within me and. ον 22 I have sinned before thee, merciful one. 316 23 Wash and purge me through tears of penitence. Again evening hymns. 317 1 While I walk in the strait path of thy. 318 2 Inthe path of destruction which is very broad. 319 3 lIfthe host ofthe fierceness of. 320 4 To thee, Christ, I present a spiritual sacrifice.
Huaaı ana Ale IAsi IA nel IE: IAso]l ,9
aaa so yIogmamın Der uno; Lu Sao No so „I sro pl ass [as we Isar lass
u „Au JUSo a) a Alasıo
BEA RSS Ss are ul
5 Deedsand right acts of justice.
6 Thy peace and tranquillity, Lord, give and.
7 When evilmen and demons stand up against me.
Strengthen me, Christ my Saviour, in order.
When 1 had considered the ways of the deeds. We ofler our spiritual sacrifice to thee, Christ. Guide and direct us, Lord, into the ways.
l sing a song of praise at the evening hour. We all offer thee praise at the evening hour. When I consider the blessings that.
Again hymns on the dead. The passing of our age is swilter than. Isaiah the wonderful in revelations of the Spirit. There is one entrance to this lıfe. : Through the transgression committed by Adam.
My wretched soul has sinned a great sin before.
‚usyAo Jura Jjoras Iso
RR —e Loy aan) 0 do
‚SoNas Jaiay N] <> | !
104, A Jassı Bom. — 105. A +2» B om.
After the soul separates and departs from. Very dreadful is the ending of this life.
A dreadful thing and full of terror.
Ifthe gloom at the departure from this life had not. Full oftrue and suprasensual light.
Again on Peter his syncellus.
3 2 Thou who broughtest the bones of the patriarch. On elergymen and monks.
343 1 Thy bondmen have heard thee.
344 2 Those who according to the saying of the great.
345 3 Thou through the great prophet David.
346 4 The gifts ofthy mercifulness, Lord, are without. Again on priests.
347 1 There is none among all that are bound in flesh who.
Muanel JNuso.o Aa mp 3 m
Nass 106 Insa05l Nr
Jah | Ir Jar Lusols »
NL] Jası Anauie Line zasll
348 2 Having been from thy earliest age chosen.
On virgin sisters. 349 1 By being born of a virgin mother in the flesh.
On devout widows. 350 1 _Widows also to whom testimony is borne.
On a funeral procession, while they are carrying the dead man.
901 1. While journeying by this road that no man can. 352 2 Attheday ofthe end or ofthe departure. 353 3 The unknown ending of the life of time. 354 4 By many forms of mercifulness. 355 5 Remember, mereiful Lord, that 1 am dust. Again on babies. 356 1 Let us not weep beyond measure for those. 357 2 How great and how marvellous are thy wonders.
.kaas a ale} ho
‚pol „il Ken joa >
‚jLax> Voss Muss ol : Jo ylalas 4 Kar τ
When the dead man is being laid in the grave. 358 1 To thy bondman, O! Christ, open the gates.
On the tonsure of monks entering the vocation.
359 1 The height of thy condescension.
On a woman who had been converted from the heresy ofthe Arians, and had become a perfect nun. 360 1 Father of merey, who didst change the rohe.
On Simeon the old.
361 1 Like our patriarch Abraham. 362 2 Lord, the working of whose marvels.
Hymns of supplication.
363 1 _\Weare assured of thy justice, ΟἹ God, and. 364 2 Thy promise is sure in our heart. 365 8. Whence shall we ask for ourselves forgiveness.
366 4 Umnendurable ıs the threat of wrath. ᾿
[43] EXPLANATORY NOTE. 13
DS 0 air do; [Mus {8900 Nam 1 Para
Nu0r-0 > 0 ».Jor LoNa> ug soo] θα, yasso Juan od fps Kurs, Hauser lin ann, Da kur bisaad DEN voanuas), Waslo .* YoLLio Im No Ss Jay „Don 195
Again the song of praise uttered at night. « Glory to God in the heights ».
I the weak and sinful, who have made this index, beg anyone who is desirous of what is good and desirous of learning who reads this book [that he must first believe that he is? not to regard the matter of the first lines of the hymns of the holy Severus which are here set down as something superfluous and unworthy of attention and examination : for all the hymns which are dispersed through the body of the book in many words and at full length are here eompressed into a small compass. You must therefore know that, if you wish to find whatever hymn you want without superseriptions as placed before each of them; and you will easily find that which you want by taking the superscription or number in the numerals of ink placed at the head of each of them, and looking in the body of the book and finding it there; and you will without fail find these numerals as written above; since the numerals of ink run through the whole book conseecutively according to the sequence of their numbers; and to the man who is desirous of learning they point out without fail whatever hymn he wishes to find. each section, the Nativity for instance and the Epiphany.
‚naaulıra Karina Milan Kıhsaha Kann ‚Krb au? asinaa
+JoaN Lan ID Ks NSS JMuso;o
Jyal Lost JS Ip Kacllaz Yo omas a msn re |
aB marg. j8> sun! past. — Ὁ Marg. 0091 .... 5 ou] sau Sao hop Lil) So [pe]! Foas
wojalasalı9, eiel o an! (I have supplied the lacunae from Cod. Vat.). The text of A on this page is very indistinct.
OF THE HOLY AND BLESSED SEVERUS, PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH, AND OF OTHER HOLY MEN
1 — ı— I — « The' power that is in his works he hath shown unto was preceded by wonders which signified the joy that was to happen to the world. For by a miracle the afflliction‘ of barrenness was removed, and trembling age was made young, and a plant sprang up from an unfruitful field; in order that this might be believed by all men, that a virgin
1. Marg. « This some say is the work of John son of Aphthonia, but others say of Philoxenus ». — 9. Ps. cxı, 6. — 3. Marg. « The passage is in Jeremiah. » — 4. Luke 1, 6, 7. — 5. Corr. “it.
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a Corr. pasıı Ina σὰ ls 05: we must also corr. hasse. — b Marg. (no doubt corr.) ‚Helper Hass) Sp) ag ae „aasıAo HSjomejjolje. — d Marg. ana) up) Liso jpelo .Ij> ne ‚He gl) Babe [arutu>o) maisb (1
1. A Nass. — 2. In ink-
also should conceive and bear without seed God the Word, who was to become incarnate from her, and to become a babe for our salvation [in the greatness of his merey ' and of his grace toward us.
2 — πὶ — VII. — « Who shall declare the Lord’s wonders? »" — What mind or speech or hearing is there that is equal to the ineflable sea of mercifulness? The Only one, who before all the ages was born in divine fashion and without a body from the Only one, the Word of the Father, he was born alone from a mother alone in flesh and in bodily fashion; [who by his birth did not destroy® this mother's virginity and so showed her to be the God-bearer, since neither was he himself changed when he willed it and became man. « O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom of God! »' The womb of a woman which was condemned to bear children in pains’, this became a spring of immortality; which conceived and bore Emmanuel
without seed, and by its incorruptible® delivery loosened the bond° of our
1. Corr. ‘who hsth greatness of merey’. — 2. Ps. cvı, 2. — 3. Corr. ‘but, when he was born, did not destroy her’. — 4. Rom. x1, 33. — 5. Gen. ΠΙ, 16. « And the Lord said to the woman, T will increase and Na% cannot be preserved.
[47] ON THE NATIVITY. 47
1. A leaf lost in A.
race : whom let us all praise, and let us say, « Incomprehensible Lord of all, praise to thee! »
3 — πὶ — VI — « Let the redeemed of the Lord say »'. — O!the wonderful and divine pangs of the God-bearer and Virgin Mary, through which conception and virginity were brought together, and the couch of ehulariln did not precede the marvellous birth, nor yet did the birth break the stamps and seals of virginity. He who was born of the Father in a divine manner and without passion, the same was also born of the Virgin in a fleshly manner without passion, being one out of two, Godhead and manhood. Him the Magi” also worship; and by means of offerings they silently proclaimed him to be God :-for they offered him frankincense as a god; and gold as a king; and myrrh, which is a symbol of the life-giving mortality which on our behalf he took upon him and endured of his own will, who is the only merciful one.
A — νη — VI. « He bowed the heavens and came down »°. The
Ad polls og jaıas soo; EN oo el} 5.31 Jo ar 0 Jaro Lo; 0 Jun ;io Jun As SD, Jyaaaso ἌΝ any DS -.urollo Jadas Jr zaisk| :' yolas)so Jod de
a Mare. I. |} 06 | FaoHD0 0. — b Marg. “Ads (Ol.
Son and Word of God, who filleth all things, but is not himself ceonfined and
contained by all things, « bowed the heavens and came down »' ın his mercy to us on earth, and was contained without being confined in a virgin’s womb in a manner inexpressible. Having beeome incarnate [rom her without variation, he is born according to the laws of conception; and by an innovation he overcame the laws of nature : for he was conceived as a babe by a miracle, and fulfilled the time of nine months’ conception; but by his birth he did not burst the bond and the closed seals of his mother's virginity. Ask not how : for, if he is Emmanuel who was born, his birth is incomprehensible, and the manner of such a miracle is past finding out?. Being led therefore by the star of light to go up to heaven with the eyes of our mind, let us all with the Magi’ bless and worship him as Maker of heaven and. of earth, oflering praise to his great merey and his grace toward us.
5 — v — VIII. — « The Lord shall feed me and I shall want nothing »'. — The Shepherd of the heavenly spiritual hosts and Maker of all creation, suprasensual and perceived by the senses, having become incarnate without variation of the Holy Spirit and of the God-bearer Mary and
1. Ps. xvıu, 10. — 2. This meaning of 1,25 is unknown to the lexicons. — 3. Matth. ı1, 11, — ARPSCRRII, dr
am.s } an! Jlaslaa, Jaaaso 7.5 u Io bsp one! — 0 — A - o
a Marg:. illegible note, πὸ doubt joa, as.yel no. — b Marg. aus yol ua. no. — ce Marg.
become man, was born as a little child in Bethlehem of Judah, which means ‘house of bread’ : and the shepherds, having been enlightened as to this by the divine glory, which shone from heaven, and having seen the army of angels and the company of spiritual beings, and heard them chanting and singing a hymn of praise, searched' and sought eagerly and said to one another, « Let us go and make our way to Bethlehem »; and, as in a figure, they by this foreshadowed the shepherds and priests of the church, who set themselves constantly to seek ihe heavenly bread, and « the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world »° and is mysteriously sacrificed upon his altar every day according to the riches of his great mercy.
6 — νι — VI. — « Say unto God, ‘How terrible are thy works’ »’. — No couch of intercourse with a man cleft and broke the seal of virginity, nor was mortal seed placed in the pure uncorrupt womb; but Christ, the heavenly ear, sprang forth by a miracle from the Holy Spirit and from the God- - bearer, showing‘ also that his birth was free from phantasy, and that he is God of God, even when « he took of the seed of Abraham »° without
1. Luke τι, 8-15. — 2. John 1, 29. — 3. Ps. LXxVI, 3. — ἃ, The text can hardly be right. — 5. Heb. 11, 16.
aD as Jr „ana [ον oc „> oo : [5] ao Lsols [65 „orou|; ‚aa οἱ va [AD JorSo Jornsol Load wo JA; Nuss), Jojlso
1. B 94-0. — 2. So other MSS; B 5.
variation; in order that the Only one, who is the eternal Word, might be by dispensation «the first-born among many brethren »'; since it pleased him in release from the bonds of death and destruction by his pure blood, as the
ıgs save sin only to be made like unto us’, whom he was about to only good and mereiful one.
7 — vır— IV.— « God hath spoken in his Holy One » '. — Isaiah, when he learned beforehand the mystery of the seedless birth from the God-bearer Mary, fell into astonishment and great wonder, and cried with a loud voice and said, « Behold! a virgin shall conceive and bear οἷ : and, when he had considered him that was born and known that he is the eternal Son of the Father, and that the same became incarnate without variation as a babe in his merey, the child that is born to us now and not to him, proclaimed and said in prophecy, « A child hathı been born unto us, a son hath also been given unto us »°, whom also his very name showed to be a messenger of a great purpose and a wonderful counsellor and mighty God. How then is she not the Godbearer, who bare the mighty God, ye unbelievers, uninstructed, and foolish? whom also acknowledge with us, worshipping and saying, « Praise to thee! »
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ὃ — vu — VIII. — « The kings of Tharshish and of the isles shall bring presents to him » '. — T'he birth of Emmanuel in the flesh from the Virgin Mary was not preceded by the exereise of copulation, but” only by the descent ofthe Holy Spirit; and this God-befitting miracle is confirmed by the closed seal of virginity which is preserved even after the birth. But, before you look at and regard the mother’s womb, and call him a babe who is borne and enclosed in his mother’s arms, the Magi draw near, and bid and urge you to look at the star, and consider in your heart God the Word who descended and came from heaven, and to confess the same to be eartlly and heavenly : whom also let us bless and worship and praise as God the Saviour of alland the mereiful.
9 — ıx — IV. — « To thee have I lifted up mine eyes, the dweller in the heavens » ἡ. — In the wish to see with the eyes of my mind the depth of the mystery of tlıe Humanization, I both stretch my intelleet and apply it to all sides; and, being little enlightened, I restrain my sight and pass from miracles. He who in the beginning is the Word of God and the Father without ceasing to be God was wholly contained without being confined in ansypo Joa Kuls „5 "oly 055 ro aD ‚Jaduas Ἀν Juan NS Sy Jo Lay u JS» — SS Jo JA 0019 „ar aa Lie Mas a — 0 — 3 — we
a Marg. illegible note, no doubt ...as., og} Jjasopo wo. — b Marg. amuıgol ua) 0. — ‘
e Marg. as, ayojl wo. — d Marg. „u, 05) Jjaspe o.
the womb of Mary the Virgin the God-bearer. Not by stirring up hosts of heavenly beings did he this, but silently and in a manner inexpressible; and, having been hypostatically united to holy flesh with an intelligent soul, he became perfect man without variation. Ofthis David sang beforehand when he prophesied and cried, « He shall come down like rain upon a fleece » ', This John also was inspired moreover to write in his Gospel-teaching when he proclaimed and said, « The Word became flesh and dwelt among us » °. This Gabriel announced to the Virgin when he said, « Hail to thee, thou that art highly favoured! The Lord is with thee, blessed among women »°. Him let us also praise and confess, inasmuch as he is the Saviour of our race, Christ, God over all.
10 — x — VI. — « When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion »'. — That God the Word in a manner inexpressible as he willed it « bowed the heavens and came down » ἡ to us, and of the Holy Spirit and ofthe very essence (οὐσία) of the most blessed Virgin without variation and without all sin became incarnate and became perfectly man by his grace let us all
1. Ps. Lxxır, 6. — 2 John 1, 14. — 3. Luke 1, 28, — ἃ, Ps. cxxv, 1. — 5. Ps. xvIIs, 10.
[53] ON THE NATIVITY. 53 udaso | 1] ! » „Jbasär JaN „solo lauua Das Jo oA .- }}}} SD Joor kur] Iyaido :pzma> „ad. Sam od Luso;s <= BEN do van ya} Yoro bay bass ls . in ar [1355 .ὴϑ
Joa Jay? ir 0 A ss hie Wie de wa — ἢ „eb bJL> ER Joor son - Jon ID INDoN 3 ° yoleshaes ra Ju
confess like Paul the teacher of mysteries, who wrote in his teaching and said to the peoples, « But, when the fulness of time was come, God sent his Son and he was born of awoman »'. For the conception and the true birth with the swaddling-clothes bear witness to the truth of the Incarnation; while to the descent without a body from on high witness * is borne by the star which appeared to the Magi; and that he is God the frankincense also that is offered to him as to a god proclaims; while the gold that was offered him which was placed before his feet as a king bears witness to his power over all; and the saving Passion which he endured on our behalf in the flesh and the annihilation of corruption by the life-giving burial were prefigured by the sweet smell of myrrh. In virtue of them all therefore let us bless and worship him who even in his very exinanition is shown to be full, asking of him forgiveness of sins and his great mercy.
11 — xı — VII. — « We will hear what the Lord our God shall speak » '. “ — That the conception in the womb of Mary the Virgin the God-bearer was without the seed of a man the angel Gabriel bore witness, who was reoa „> 09 Wan ol sah δι Sao Jo in BL TISST | Lınsar "aaso 3 Do .opar „surf ie ger „Oö 0
a B marg. uno (asyol no. — b B marg. unse ou p ou. — C B märg. ou „> ou, —
1. Here A begins again. — 2. A N. —3. A ID
vealed to Joseph in the vision of a dream and said, « For he which hath been born in her is of the Holy Spirit »' : and that he was the Word and the only Son of God, who became incarnate and was born of her without variation he further added by saying to him, « And she shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which interpreted means "God is with us’? and again as to the same being called Jesus he made explanation and said, « For he shall save his people from their 5115.» ΄. Accordingly we are with him; and he saves us and grants forgiveness for sins. Acknowledging him therefore to be God who became truly man, let us all offer praise to his great mercy.
12 — xır — VI — « The Lord, the mighty God, is with us » '. — A great wonder! he who is the Maker of all creation and ruleth all like a good shepherd left the thousands and ranks of the holy bodiless hosts and the angelic myriads and companies in a manner which he knows, and came down from heaven in mysterious wise, though neither did he separate from them
1. Matth. 1, 20 (not quoted). — 2. Ibid. 23 (not quoted). — 3. 1014. 21 (not quoted). — 4. Ps. xLvI,
[55] ON THE NATIVITY. 55 “Olpe .ϑ bo> Js dunftir [9.6.5 Jr Jocı .3 rear
ha SA» .adosa aauhwrf anal, „/ nAanla
a Marg. al aaa μι 00420 u Po „op ho ul Km lab Jo Js . „As age —
‚yasoıl ka>>o “ὦ Jjass SA .Aamull ouos [il
(how could he of whom all things are full?), and came ' after the lost sheep to seek it, which isthe race of men ?; and of his own will was numbered in the flock of sheep as a sheep by becoming truly man without variation. Him when John saw, he said, « This is the Lamb of God which takethı away the sin of
the world and saveth it »
: whom let us beg and entreat to bestow upon us the riches of his great mercy.
13 — xııı — VII. — « God hath sent forth his grace and his truth » '. — After the expulsion from the blessed life in the Paradise of Eden, when the sentence concerning sin had gone forth and it had been said to Adam, « Dust thou art and to dust shalt thou go back »°, like a wheel running rapidly downwards allour race was hastening and being driven to utter destruction; and it had not power to turn and look towards heaven; and there was no plan or device which could draw and dray upwards those who had been hurled
« And God said..... shalt thou return. »
Kan oh wor La „Luna 001 nwaanlisa Lı>;an laD la [5] Sao -.Joopas Jod] "usa „ans rörn [μ᾽ yon )ug-2 worada ns whauıdr y-l IL ao usässtae
downwards and had fallen. Therefore the Word who is on high brought himself down, the invariable to the variable, the heavenly to those on earth, the fleshless to those that were of llesh, that he might be what we are, save sin only or change; to fighters and enemies he that is peace, to them that hate true love, to them that were cast down the pillar‘. \Whom praising with the holy angels let us ery, « Praise to God in the heights, and on earth may peace reign, and among men good hope! » *, according to the abundance of his great mercy.
14 — xıy — VI. — « Let the unjust be ashamed in their vanity 0 ἧ. — Let those who are intoxicated with the dreamlike error of the phantasy be ashamed before the true conception of the holy Virgin and God-bearer, who carries in her womb the heavenly Word and Son, who became incarnate {rom her without variation, her to whom Elizabeth * cried and said, « Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit that is in’ thy womb » : for
1. Or ‘Resurrection’; the play cannot be preserved. — 2. Luke xt, 13, 14 « And immediately... and among (7) men good will ’. » — 3. Ps. xxv, 4. — 4. Luke ı, 39-45. — 5. Gorr. ‘of.
fun Mus Ss; Asus Vol
um !rfai })}}5} mimda IN-Lilo Ian J snadurn oc msn : ji; „a smala ug HI rn una wat
assuredly the quickening fruit sprouted and sprang from the very essence the true birth, which is no phantasmal passing through, did not loosen or destroy the closed seals of virginity; and by his true salvation he calls us to incorruption, according to the riches of his
great mercy.
The hymns on the Nativity of Christ our God are ended, which are 14.
AGAIN HYMNS ON THE EPIPHANY.
15 — ı — V. — « Blow upon the trumpets at the beginning of months » '. — Lo!” again a festival, again another example of the good deeds of God toward us. The Word, the Creator of all, who became Son of man in truth without variation, is baptized with the baptism of repentance as one that is guilty, [he that is® guiltless : and fear and astonishment at the great mystery restrained the right hand of John the Baptist; but he drew it trembling to him, that he might place it on his head in baptısm, erying by dispensation, am „20 ‚wann rear an sin reis as gl oo] Lam, ur ums was [Namsed omas pusz Jooı Lay ren! era, DEN, ya N er ee τὸ N) Kran Lada
« Suller it now » '; and by going down and being baptized in the river Jordan he hallowed the nature * of water : and, though he isthe Son by nature, he receives testimony by the voice of the Father which came from above; and, though he is himself the giver ol the Spirit, he received the descent of the Holy Spirit. For he that lacketh not, who appeared as one that lacketh Tand was named the second Adam, became’ ın all things a beginning to us. To him let us ery and say, « Thou who didst grant to thy creation that it should have its being and a well-ordered being, Christ, God, praise to thee! »
16 — ır — VIII. — « Let the rivers clap hands together » '. — A great wonder! he who by his inewplicable birth in flesh from the holy God-hearer, the Virgin, blessed our entry into the world went down into the river Jordan to John, inasmuch as he wished by his baptism to open before’ us an ascent leading up to heaven, and to lay in advance a sure foundation for the gift of adoption, and to bring the Holy Spirit upon flesh, and to erush° the head of
1. Matth. πι, 14-17 (cited as Luke) « But John..... for so we must fulfil..... like adove and had remained upon him..... I am well pleased ' ». — 2. Gorr. ‘ outpouring '. — 3. Corr. ‘ was also named..... 3
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a Marg. „omsar5 „DS; aan; Pass op odabo (ayjas «θεὰ „.oMa.r 001 „0. — b Marg. so, 25
IA girl. — 2, Over these words is written in A, app. not as corr., Fas ulz@-
the evil one, the suprasensual serpent, upon the waters; whom also he once through Pharaoh' and his chariots figuratively drowned in the depths of the Red Sea. Him let us praise and confess, saying with joy, « Lord God of the old eovenant (129421) and of the new, be gracious and mereiful to us ».
17 — ıı — VII. — « How great is thy mercy, O God! » * — Very great isthe richness® of the kindness of God toward us, and this cannot be discovered by the understanding, nor can it be set forth in speech how great it is. God the Word, the only Son of the Father, who is the head and cause of our being, took upon him ἡ to undergo the birth in the flesh from the holy Virgin, on behalf of ourselves® who had fallen away to the passions of the flesh. For our sake again, who are guilty persons subject to® sin, he is baptized with the rest in the river Jordan like” one guilty of sin, not because he needed eleansing, but that he might himself eleanse and hallow the water by hıs
“ heads of the serpents upon the water. Thou crushedst the heads of Leviathan and gavest him as
food to the Ethiopian peoples. » — 1. Ps. cxxxv, 15 « To him who overthrew Pharaoh and all his host in the Sea of Rushes, for his merecy is for ever. »— 2. Ps. xxxt, 20 (?). — 3. Rom. 11, 4 — 4. Heb. ıv, 15 (verbal diff.). — 5. Corr. ‘ us’. — 6. Corr. “ of’. — 7. Gorr. © as if”.
aD sam INusjoiso ,'ANTIıL us Jas> Srao hör „> Jora20 UND ya do LADL am Joan IS, Jo = a u] Se v2 941.90 A.L_00| soo] ou» al » BIT NEN ud ρα Lmwols Mala Ja. DL Hiardia any ana | bpasseb al; zu, 01 ‚leo, seaadure
baptism, and illuminate the divine laver, which shone with the rays of the
triple and single light of the Trinity through the goodwill of the Father, through the condescension of himself the Son, and through the descent ofthe Holy Spirit, which he received for our sake, when it flew like ' a dove and came let us ery and say, « Co-essential Trinity, praise to thee! »
18 — ıv — VII. — « Therefore shall the peoples give thanks unto thee for ever and ever » ἢ. — In proof that it is for our cleansing only and not from need that Jesus, who is God and the Word, our Saviour, is baptized, let us listen to the voice of John and hear it erying to him and saying, « I need to be baptized and cleansed by thee, and hast thou, Lord, come to me? »*; and, when we see his exinanition for our sake, let us not forget and think it to be a dıminution of his Godhead : how could he who is able to eleanse the Baptist himself be
himself reckoned among the rest ofthose that are cleansed? Wherefore let
1. Matth. πι|, 16 (not quoted). — 2. Ps. xLv, 18. — 3. Matth. rır, 13, 1% « Jesus came..... by him; but he was for preventing it..... to me’ ».
#y> hsas hans no Ja I Las zo JS era wre — | m — ἃ, os ud YJocı sad Do Anamdan wurd, ac onen SA Ja BJ "nun ogs ar aa pol) Las us an olı
aB marg. .,o. Base „aej. — b Corr. 3. — ὁ B marg, 1x 1a, us) Ingt we. — d Corr. ‚Joy al. — € Marg. Jon> Map] „dur Jpaud bon ,Laso also, [op 100,9 „da. [001] Jjasorm0 „+20|
1. A Mahn. — 2. A do; — 3. A Cu DB 0:
us all praise his unmeasured eondescension toward us; and let us say, « Lord of all, great in merey, praise to thee! »
19 — v — I — « The voice of the Lord is upon the waters » '. — Who would not wonder at the boundless sea of the eondescension toward us of Christ, the Son and Word of God, who was begotten of the Father before the ages, « who covereth his chambers with water and maketh elouds his chariot »?? TAfter he has of his own will become incarnate and become man without changing from being God, and become* all that we are except sin, he sinks his head beneath the water of baptism, and draws and raises the world with him, which was sunk in the waves of sin as in the deep; who also eries though the prophet David, saying, « Save me, O God, for the waters have come even unto my soul; 1 have sunk in a deep abyss and there is no standing-place in it; and the whirlpool hath overwhelmed me »‘: and therefore let us praise him who upon us who had already been brought to loss of being
zAX. « Save me, © God, for waters have come even unto my soul. I have sunk in the substance (ὕλη
of the deep and there is no standing-place. I have come into the depths of Ihe sea and the stornı
RE ER ou Do lh J sony a u yo — I — A — y IADol> 0 aaa: "Das “ad Wais Jane "NA "aaa IA oe Am um) a ’yorlinin Khan ERRIUIS LLSSN Sao „Joa, am ya Nuss οἱ» Joa
d Corr. Saso (to precede). — e Marg. «οὶ -.I2or0 J;aa> asloha] Kuss za, So .Ljas lady ug) «τὸ DH> „or «sloha] Jay > 09. — f Corr. » (to precede). — g (ΟΡ. puasxo (lo precede). —
h Corr. „1. — i Corr. pas.
bestowed by his grace a support for a well-ordered being, through baptism and the divine laver of forgiveness. 20 — vı — VO. — « Because great hath been his grace toward us »'. — Wonder not if you see Christ joined τὸ ὁ the guilty and coming’ to the river Jordan in order to go down and be baptized in this by John. If, though heis God by nature ', and by way of dispensation took upon him ἢ the birth in the flesh from the holy Virgin Mary, and partook with us in very essence entrance leading into the world (for° in divine fashion he filled all things), how then could he not have been himself also the beginning of your eleansing, and hallowed the water by his baptism? who is the giver of’ all glorious and divine gifts and '° mereiful. 21 — νη — III. — « Bless God, ye peoples » ''. — When the only Word "ἢ 1. Ps. LXXxv1, 13 (Ὁ). — 2. Corr. ° with’. — 3. Corr. “ comes ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ nature truly ’. —5. Corr.
“him and underwent ’. — 6. Heb. τι, 14. — 7. Corr. “ that ’. — 8. Corr. “ since ’. — 9. Corr. “ and bestower of '. — 10. Corr. ‘ as being’. — 11. Ps. ıxv1, 8. — 12. Corr. ‘ Christ ’.
„Loss usa. ass "DuL] ..Jooı 536] [5130 Sala; Lad. "Jo LI.
auslja anadı „la Jadii> hir Du] Joh arm ss Los] Anlass V)as-As grad | Ns nn . aals;lls ‚ss Jais
a Corr. jnson> (to follow). — b Marg. os jooıy IA>5 Joy. |aa Μὲ zamiso Joy .koads (ao no „|Nup0 0 u ‚anbansjo, ands AN] July So jo jo] ansifs aus aus] :hj2o ;SoL olssan H udLr
was born in flesh ofthe God-bearer, an ' angel said to the shepherds, « There hath been born to you this day a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the eity of David »*. If therefore he who is by nature a Saviour came by his grace to the baptism of John in the river Jordan, he did not come to receive any addition, but that he might himself tinge and purify the water by his baptism, and make it a source ol life and salvation to them * that are baptized : concerning whom Isaiah also before proclaimed, erying, « Ye shall all draw water with great joy from fountains of salvation, praising the greatness of his mercy and grace »‘.
22 — vırr — VI — « There is none like unto thee, ΟἹ Lord our God, and there are no works like unto thy works » ’. — Divine in truth is all this® condescension toward us. Lo! Christ, even God, who through Jeremiah the prophet
cries to them that live in sins and says, « Repent and be turned, children that
1. Corr. ‘ the Virgin, an ᾿. — 2. Luke τ, 10-12. « Lo! I declare..... the world. There is born..... in a manger. » — 3. Corr. ὁ us”. — 4. Is. ΧΙ, 2, 3 « Lo! I trust..... from a fountain of salyation. »
„Joy 030] voroh.l ocı ” rduıis vor Joan Ju ua > rad, all „so ‚ml Wide Lin: alu Walz od wranma Jade hasas use ἡ τ aaa mama iu Alena don ira, la Jooı any ’lasfo 4a Haas ago "aan iharo . No rs ’walole „sol S| NEN BE RSENNGE ‚1. 11 ra 3 ΝΘ. 0, Dog Jaa8 .. "Jh Joor Jar ypada im] jan JNasAn,
asp 85. — ὁ Marg. Inj> So, 09 kuasass So W (with mark of abbr.) was tal} „4 us; τὸ „g00p Ij2a> y=] .INDoL „u (ansamı lo „ia KL ul INjar) el ano oo „lo. — 6 Corr. (both
have withdrawn yourselves » ', mingled as a man among them that were being baptized through repentance by John in the Jordan, though he is himself « the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, and saveth it »*; and through his descent into the river Jordan and his life-giving baptism he made the water a means of giving forgiveness of sins and of sanctification, and rendered it an agent for accomplishing all justice : for, « so it befitted us to fulfil all righteousness »°, he cried to John the Baptist and Forerunner, while giving and granting to us through divine baptism the fulness of grace and the riches of his great merey.
23 — ıx — IV. — « Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed » ‘. — Christ, even God, wno by means of the water of the river Jordan didst cleanse the whole world, and through the great Paul saidst, « Old things have passed away, and lo! everything hath become new »°, in thy mercy make my
1. Jer. Π|, 14 zXX « ‘ Lo! ye have not heard my voice ’, saith the Lord; ‘ be turned, children that have withdrawn ἡ saith the Lord ‘ because I will rule over you; and I will take you away one from a 5. II Cor. v, 17, 18 (verbal diff.).
aaa "us ! po; Lodz Kol uno aan91 Nude union ID. oe pa ‚usäna uullu Erin 'mamaus vor Nuss) wduma Liz sion an 00 je 9
asll; am AD wa Ja; u lade „Naais durfihr
soul to repent which after the divine laver has been made red ' like scarlet by the foul ὁ stain of sin; and through the streams of water which my eyes ἦ pour out‘ before thee in thy great graciousness purify and cleanse me’; and make me whiter than snow, and have merey upon us. |
24 — x — III. — « In thy light shall we see light ». — With the hidden eyes ofthe mind I seem to see the river Jordan being lifted upwards with its waves in floods not of water but of light, and pouring the true knowledge of the Holy Trinity richly into our souls, and showing the Son and Word of God, who became incarnate and became man truly without variation from a mother, standing in the water to be baptized, and making the water itself a source of life, inasmuch as he is himself by nature a fountain of life; and showing the Father, as he cries from above, by’ saying, « Thou art my beloved Son » *, bestowing the beginning ofadoption on us ourselves and not on Christ (for he who
EXVII, 136 ZXX « Mine eyes have let fall streams of water, because I have not kept thy law. » — 4. Corr. “Jet fall’. — 5. Ps. τι. 7 « Sprinkle upon me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed : purge me and I shall be whiter than snow. » — 6. Ps. xxxvI, 10. — 7. Corr. * by the words ’. — 8. Matth. ııı, 17, Mark
1, 11, Luke π|, 22 (none quoted) : also erroneous ref. to Jolın.
„ars Joora Taaadıre? ol; SA :las yo] Janis χὰ ”ysoilla dpsla ->Jaa aa lo INES Jo is , andal dann sol Kan Kun waaıın ndal us sarn.o ‚pais] yo Li] ano DI "smadund, os ne ‚Ha "ads Lian I Io UA,
a Corr. Ksoro Is. — b Corr. .aspo p. — € Marg. μὲ .\oo8 zeolo ua fir „ms u5l as wo
is himself alone aSon by nature needed not to became a son); and showing the Holy Spirit /ying like a dove and coming from on high, and perfecting for us by his grace the gilt of the laver of regeneration. For all things which he has in his essence as God Christ received himself for us by dispensation, out of his great mercy.
25 — xı — VI — « The Lord God hath showed us light ' ». — The Son and the Word οἱ God, alter he had of his own will mingled with men as a man since he indeed became incarnate and became a man without varia-
tion, was standing on the bank ofthe river Jordan as an ordinary man among many; and John* also saw him with the eye of the spirit, and revealed and pointed him out as with the finger to the multitude who had no knowledge of him [and said’, « Behold! there standeth one among you whom ye know not » '; and, when he came near to him, he atlsstopped him in fear and said trembling, « I need to be baptized ofthee »: and Jesus answered him, « Suffer
l. Ps. exvis, 27. — 2. Corr. “ the Forerunner '. — 3. Corr. ὁ erying '. —/ı. John 1, 26, 27.
[07] ON THE HOLY FAST OF LENT. 67 Slasa Au od I AM ..ypo So Isis NA 1 ἰο Infuan
1.357 "au ’duan Indunm al
las Do nn gie un, Jlaaıso Jose „wo || au Ds Ja ba IAsusil Io; yaso „bo; So wo usa Δ hd Jlaaıl, Nas aıd smarayis I az oe Lu „o Aradıa
a Corr. So (perh. to cover 'nss also).
it now : for so it belitted us to fulfil all rishteousness »'. Therefore he that is complete by nature and came for our sake to fulfil all things, he of his own store gave and imparted divine baptism, while he himself received nothing from it, except our salvation, asthe only good and mereiful one.
The hymns on the Epiphany of our Lord are ended.
AGAIN HYMNS ON THE HOLY FAST OF LENT.
26 — ı — V. — « Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened ἡ ». — Let all of us who wish to enter the sacred gate ol the holy last erase and banish all earthly thoughts from our hearts; and let us pass the whole of it in holy fashion in good works. \We fast by abstaining not from food only, but also from bitterness and malice; and from every place let us yain and amass the riches of repentance; and with hot tears let us all beg and entreat Christ our God to bestow upon us in his merey true partici- τ pation and communion in the holy Passover, and the riches.of his great merey. 27 — 11 — V.— « Because our soul hath been brought down to the dust ’ ».
„namıyın Zar 2 00. rasd ud Is; whcamrln md bo Lie] Issun rss anollo μα. I zaislla
up pe al Pioäam \oorjlo.."jjmasb Jay yo Ey; Moe „Loop aus yo li. — b Corr. (we require yel p) um ‚Janus (wg; „el. — C Marg. jo Jjolo Js>o Jaiıs »Lusjojro JaNsor I,0aS „0 ‚as ya no "Ag Jo} oruojmso „Juno fartıs far [510] anmatı pl „ol Kuss Jo] „ass Jo „one asastı ἢ „DS yalj300 Jo Lahm || Sir Zi -uooplar ug jlalas 00 „Ras mio] 0 do yasouo. — ([ Marg.
PDS ursa, Jo solo Hop NS. —e Corr “ALA00,90.
— Since by reason of our sin of disobedience (for the sin of our father Adam is that of all ol us) the flesh' desires what is contrary to the spirit, Christ our God established and ordained the fast for us as a medicine; who, when he had of his own will in his mercy become incarnate without variation and become man in the time of the last days, in his graeiousness underwent and fulfilled this on behalf of us the weak ones; so that thenceforth by an inversion the spirit desired high and heavenly things contrary to the flesh. While we fulfil this, accept us, Lord; and in thy merey grant that we may all [οἵ- fer repentance like the Ninivites® and fast from sins in our soul; and that each one of us may depart® and turn aside from his evil way, and from the service of foul things, and from the aequisition of imiquity that is in his hands; and that we may like the tax-gatherer say with penitence of soul, « Mereiful Lord, be gracious to me a sinner and [have merey upon‘ me »°.
1. Gal. ν. 16, 17. — 2. Corr. ‘“ repent like those at Niniveh ’. — 3. Jon. Π|, 7, 8 « By command.....
and let every man turn..... and from the iniquity that is..... upon us. » —4. Cor. ‘ save '. — 5. Luke
[69] ON THE HOLY FAST OF LENT. 69
bh Chnar asdD> cool a, lan Abaso wdınpag sad rare el wär :IJUN „No jr Das [WET wan.hn jonas m Il Ja "mio Ja enap oh 00 pn Jul τσ Jjl5 yaso ..Lusaa lab u;su0 al; Jod; lad u] I ug 9] has Sr; lila], Las
a Marg. nor; Jo yyp> „mmady> yorl Jo Too „ylanor zul ads hal ya JR zaelo Is no
„kaası os Joe Jbabao JLasfs Pl .PAasoo Jake Jos; olasdıs ul. — d Corr. pure.
1.A ma 50: — 2. A umojLl,
38 — um — V. — « Serve the Lord in fear! ». — Let us, who were ereated in the image” ol God the Creator of all, and lost the first great grace through the eating done in disobedience and by the deceitfulness of the serpent, by means of the pure unsullied fast keep the second glorious grace of our new and more divine creation, through which we were called and became sons of God, not shrinking from the fast and abstinence of the flesh; but by means of the suprasensual sweetness of the soul let us lift ourselves and fly to heaven, and dwell together with holy angels, and while still here begin the future blessed life : « for indeed the kingdom of God is not meat and drink », as it is written, « but righteousness or justice and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit »* : and therefore let us all praise |the Lord’, who by his® mereiful descent from heaven to us called and raised to this height us who were cast down in the dust,
1. Ps. 11, 11. — 2. Gen. 1, 26, 27. — 3. Gen. II, 15 « And God Iled..... and keep it. » — 4. Rom. XIV, 15-17 « Destroy not..... be blasphemed. For indeed the kingdom..... in the Holy Spirit. » — 5. Corr. * him ᾿. — 6. Corr. ‘ the.
d an dumiudu Js) bors en as oo ui — 0 A — δο
oa wa Jumaa ai SA) area Sası 3} Elan) use af ndwaardn ana "po 0 Lim; milden grau m] ao; "ori oa Lo neun,
80 .opayN} Ja umso „olujas ah wor ug Wo „our Jos che SL Ljaso „soo; Jia) ‚ad
— f Corr. aa., prob. to cover ps) also. — g Corr. ass. — h Corr. „up.
1.»inink. — 2. A om. —3. AN}. —uA «85.
39 — vw — VI — « It is time to serve the Lord' » especially [we ought το" purify the eye of our mind from the worldly mist,
At this time
and to look to the day of judement, on which the earth® shall be [agitated
with confusion ', and the heaven shall tremble with a great quaking, the light of
the sun and o/ the moon shall be [turned into darkness’ together, so also the stars too shall not give their light, when the Judge shall sit upon his
judgment-seat, « who alone hath fashioned our hearts »“, and before whom
everything is open and exposed, deed and word and motions οἱ the mind‘®. Having then begun to offer repentance, let us not grow faint and weary; since great and fearful is the day of the coming of the Lord, very great and mighty in the manifestation of his glory, and who is equal and suflieient for it?No man, but only the merey of the righteous Judge’ that shall be given to them that repent.
shall be agitated and the heaven shall quake, and the sun and the moon shall be darkened together, and the stars suall not give the brightness of their light, and the Lord shall give forth his voice before his host, because very great... endure it. » — 4. Corr. “ confounded '. — 5. Corr. ἡ darkened ’. — ὃ. Ps.
XXXII, 15 zZXX « Who fashioned their hearts alone, who understandetn all his (sie) deeds. » — 7. Gorr. “to. — 8. Corr. * thought ’. — 9. Corr. * one’.
[71] ON THE HOLY FAST OF LENT. 71 „SEN Las Spas yD ram . ll Sad Las] -.Josı Pan EN saN soo! Lusy Ja ran (u, - )Aasossa hun, uima hp Kir Nun) adaya yia, or Do Jod] Kaona dail, Marken lan aan m msi ad 0)
‚arasor omdscaar omas, |hassas. — C COLT. as. — d (ον. Jay — e Üorr. er Son. — h Corr. ınia> (to precede).
30 — v— VI — « The Lord sent salvation to his people' ». — The holy fast becomes « all things to all men », in order that it may gain all?, and so let us draw near to thee, Christ our God. For to those that have attained to be a perfect man, in the measure of the full! spiritual stature®, it is a great and invineible weapon against the devil; those that are diseased and have fallen under vile‘ and hateful passions it heals and eures through repentance, and supports and raises |from a fall’, and those again that [are assailed ® by the action of foul fiends and of spirits of wickdeness it frees from them : for, « This kind goeth not forth by anything save through fasting and prayer »', thou my Lord, God that liest not, didst say. By it strengthen us all and deliver us, as being good and mereiful.
31 — vi — VI. — Rich and poor together‘ ». — Ye that are diseased and take your delight in’ the hateful passions of lusts, receive the good and great
1. Ps. cxı, 9. — 2. I Cor. ıx, 22. — 3. Eph. ıv, 13 (verbal diff.). — %. Corr. © of vileness '. - 5. Corr. “them that are cast down ’. — 6. Corr. ‘ have undergone ᾿. — 7. Matth. xvır, 20, 21. — 8. Ps.
XLIX, 3. — 9. Corr. ‘ in mind in”.
ı.Daas0 Jan 7a PN „gadasa do )NaSias 5.8 Ne ıla>] > au 18 Dahn ha] ‚muaamıa wopas INS} od
benefit of the fast [for your healing' : and ye that in asceticism are making? a struggle against invisible enemies, zealously carry this through to the uttermost like athletes, anointing [according to the gospel saying* your suprasensual head', that is the intellect which is the guide of the soul, and moreover washing also the hidden face of your mind and spiritually adorning it : fand thus let us fitly honour the holy fast‘. For a great thing for us is this® that we should fast with Christ, who on our behalf took upon him to fast? of his own will, in order that we may be admitted also to take part in his life-giving mortality, while we ofler® praise to his glorious Resurrection from among the dead and to his great merey.
32 — vı —V. « All ye bondmen ofGod' ». — Let us keep the pure
mirror of the holy fast from all stain, in no wise blackening this as if by smoke
through the breath that!" is wont to echale from divers kinds οἱ [food ; but let us celeanse and purify it through abstinence and by the performance of all good deeds, in order that by looking in it and seeing our new man « that in God
1. Corr. ‘ in healing fashion ἡ. — 2. Gorr. ‘ contending in '. — 3. Corr. ‘ in gospel fashion ᾿. 4. Matth. νι. 17, 18. — 5. Corr. ‘ let us all therefore honour this (sie) as God '. — 6. Gorr. ὁ il‘. —
7. Corr. ‘ fasted ’. — 8. Corr. © sing ’. — 9. Ps. cxxxıv, 1. — 10. Corr. ° of’.
A ET EEE IE NE
[78] ON THE HOLY FAST OF LENT. 73 .."]Nsao, Slam. Jlaasyı> Jod SL, osı Im Sue „uud
„050 Da] Fr ‚Jousla dur onoas Lad "gar IA DI aa
was created in righteousness and in holiness of truth » ' we may be admitted
to approach "with purity and take part in tasting* the mystery of the Passover, and to bless and worship Christ who is God, who suflered and died on our behalf in the flesh and rose from among the dead, while we praise his goodness and his great’ merey.
33 — vıı — VI — « My days have declined like a shadow ' ». — Though the course of the days of the fast has already reached its middle (for the « days pass away sıwiftly like a shadow »°), we have not laid any beginning of true repentance; and behold! the saving Passion of God who became inearnate is now near at hand; and through the light of the rays of the Cross and of his ® life-giving tomb the joyous and gladdening splendour of the Resurreetion is shining : and the heavy burden of our many sins weighs down the spiritual eye of the mind, and suffers us not to Traise our sight’ to the fair and marvellous light. Cleanse us all, our Saviour; and drive
1. Eph. ıv, 24, 25. — 2. Corr. ‘in pure fashion taste ’. — 3. Corr. ‘ unmeasured ᾿, — 4. Ps. cıı, 12. — 5. Ps. cXLII, 4. — 6. Corr. ‘ the ’. — 7. Corr. ‘ look ’.
7A IYMNS OF SEVERUS. [74] RENT y5'hlo Jess Ill, Jay Sa reuın ers Jlaslas abo husa dä, Js Jans as
op P ads .Joor wopj> Passo. — Ὁ Corr. Jlammile p. — € Marg. oo asasp..D.: Jjassıo no y hop za bar So „ua mmtlr (SIC) 005 hass Dr ag Ks ade udulr hal I IN
away the suprasensual darkness [rom among us (thou art God who « lightest every man that cometh into the world »'), and have merey upon us.
34 — ıx— II. — « Turn from evil and do good’ ». — Ye that have tasted the fast by privation οἱ" food have thereby tasted and seen that which is written that « the Lord is good » '. Looking ἢ therefore in abstinence as in a mirror, "be more earnest in purging® from you all foulness of sin; and, departing ' {rom every evil act, wash* the suprasensual face of your mind, /ikewise also anoint your suprasensual head through the joy ’ of good and spiritual deeds; and make yourselves ready for the communion of the holy Passover. For indeed Christ our Passover was of his own will slain for us '"; who is the Lamb and Son, and the Word of the Father, the great High-priest, who in his
1. John τ. 9. 16. — 2. Ps. xxxıv, 15. — 3. Corr. ‘ not taking’. — 4. Ibid., 9 « Taste..... and blessed are all that trust in him. » — 5. Ref. to Gal. (I Cor. xır, 122). — 6. Corr. “ purge the more ’. — 7. Ps. xxxıv. 15 (verbal difl.). — 8. Matth. γι, 17, 18. — 9. Corr. splendour '. — 10. I Cor. v, 7, 8 (verbal
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REN lasse τὺ oa Ms As a}: ol Liv .Lunam
aB marg. pas 15 [U we]. — ἢ Marg. „nut pause fr 21 ans anlop .Lumäl lady ug; no 2 (SIC) sau pl 20 „ulanssad 09, Auf ans Al 5) ul polo od mm Ill μὴ bory Too „lage Kin PL Bol Hol (516) ul pas or .[SIC) van om jBolo „or, we wall |Anas dio «5. BI Fa} .jnelo on
Mom -9 ho, Say — 3, A marc.
mercy offered himself once' for our sins a sacrifice to his Father and an eternal acceptable oblation « for a sweet savour »* : who also "was lifted up ἢ in the body and ascended to heaven, and fills all things for ever without a body as God : to whom let us all offer praise at all times and to his great ὁ mercy.
The hymns on the holy fast of Lent are ended. AGAIN HYMNS ON THE MIRACLES OR ACTS OF HEALING WHICH CHRIST DID.
The first on the leper.
35 — ı — VIIL — « Have mercy upon me, Lord, for Iam sick ». — The‘ leper, O! Christ, eried; « Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst eleanse me »: and, as he spake, thou stretchedst forth thine hand full of help toward him; and having touched him’, thou saidst in thy mercifulness*®, « I will, be cleansed »;
1. Heb. ıx, 28. — 2. Eph. v, 2 (verbal diff.). — 3. Corr. ‘ passed ’. — 4. ον. * ineffable '. ERS: vI, 3. — 6. Matth. vıır, 1-4 « And, when he came down..... and said, ‘ If thou wilt..... testimony unlo them ’» (verbal diff.). Reff. also to Mark 1, 40-4*, Luke v, 12-14. — 7. Unintelligible corr. — 8. Gorr. ἡ mer-
eifully commandedst'.
> NS a0 urn JA nut vor? las] Aal
»onol “am; „209 usa 00, \n
ml wir usöpk] JH hs on N] :°ool wo oe "Las odıs
a Corr. npyasso (to follow). — b Corr. yoo;s (sie) to follow. — ὁ Corr. zoo. — d Marg. Kal Padsay has dass ano y wulr HS 11} ‚007 Basar za (510) ira Js yansaı μὸ N „Jon JEe p Io nal Wylo „Kaduay [Nyasassas „url. — 6 ÜOTT. JBaso. — f Corr. jo "δου.
Fand thou causedst 'the afllietion of his leprosy to flee from him, and thereby showedst that thou art one and indivisible, in that thou didst both command in a manner befitting God and touch in human fashion as a man, and by the touch of the hand and the word * workedst one and the same divine action. And on this account also we ourselves beg of thee, O! Lord, touch our® mind and cleanse' this from all stain and spot of sin and have merey upon
On the man blind from his mother’s womb.
36 — ır — IV. — « The Lord my God shall lighten my darkness ». — The‘ Creator, who placed in the man who was blind” from This mother’s womb ἢ pupils of eyes that were not given him by nature, could’ have per-
formed 'such ἃ '" miracle with a word by spitting on the ground and forming
1. Corr. * causing ’. — 2. Corr.‘ word effectually ’. — 3. Corr. ‘ Saviour, our ’ (?). — 4. Corr. ‘ remove ’.— 5. Ps. xvım, 29. — 6. Gorr. “ He’. — 7. John ΙΧ, 1-7 « And, when..... and they say to him, ‘“ Lord.... that he was born blind !'..... seeing. » — 8. Corr. “ birth '. — 9. Gorr. ‘ when he could ’. —
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elay and taking this and smearing it upon his eyes', and by the acts themselves showing elearly that he is he who made all things by his word; who also ın the beginning formed man out of elay as the Maker, and Traised us to such” a high understanding; "but in that he commanded* him afterwards to go again and wash away the clay ' from his eyes in the baptism ὅς of Shiloah, which means ‘apostle’ or "emissary’ he showed everyone "that he is he that was sent by the Father to proclaim and give release to the captives, and to the
blind the power of seeing” the light, and to bestow upon us in his merey a new regeneration ®, through" the laver of life-giving baptism '' : whom let us beg and entreat to enlighten our souls by the knowledge of him, according to
the riches of his great mercy.
1. Corr. “ fingers ἡ. — 2. Corr. ‘ raising us to that‘. — 3. Corr. “ yet by giving him this command '. — 4. Corr. ‘ mud also’. — 5. Is. vıı, 6. — 6. Corr. © himself to be him ’. — 7. Corr. * sight.
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On the stricken woman.
37 — ııı — VI — The thought ofmy heart is before thee, Lord my helper and my saviour ' ». — The? "stricken woman thought in faith to approach ' secretly the hem of Christ’s holy robe and be cured; and this did not escape Jesus who knoweth the hearts. Wherefore also while thronged by a yreat multitude he said, « Someone approached ὁ me » : for the touch made in‘ faith had received yreat power of healing, and stanched the stream of the fountain of blood that had been flowing for Ta long time’. Ye therefore who are now through baptism about to put on Christ himself, doubt not in your heart : all the stream of the sins that you have committed from your childhood is dried up and destroyed by the divine grace, according to the greatness of his merey foward us.
3. Corr. “ believing woman wilh an issue of blood thought to touch ἡ. — 4. Gorr. ἡ touched '. — ὃ. Gorr. ° of’. — 6. Corr. ‘ drawn '. — 7. Corr. ‘ of long standing '.
er ws | san DESSEN 00 wa 2 a ar ol; Mai AN a; Al ‚rim Jordi. aaaseh las
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ο Corr. (l. Pr) pMl was ».
On the paralytie.
38 — ıv — VII. — Heal my soul for I have sinned against thee ' ». — He° that had been paralyzed in his limbs for a long space of years was brought near to thee, Christ, laid upon a bed; but, because it was ihy wish as God to heal and eure the paralysis of his soul together with that of his bodv, thou saidst to him in thy merey, « Be of good cheer, my son, all thy sins are forgiven thee ». But the foolish Jews thought the greatness ol these words to be blasphemy, since they considered that it belongs to God only to be able to forgive sins 10 men : but thou, my Lord, "showedst that, though ὁ of thine own pleasure thou becamest man, yet thou didst not withdraw or cease [rom being God, and‘ namedst thyself man, and what seemed to these blasphemy thou showedst to be true; and with authority befitting God forgavest sins, and
1. Ps. xtı. 5. — 2. Malth. ıx, 1-6 (eited as John : verbal diff.). Reff. also to Mark τι. 3-13, Luke v, 18-25. — 3. Corr. * making it known that, when '. — 4. Gorr. * botlı ᾽ν
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didst command him that had sinned to rise and take up his bed and go to his
house. God ' who canst do all things, praise to thee!
On the centurion°®.
39 — v— VI — Because he knoweth the thoughts of the heart’ ». — He‘ that fashioned our hearts alone as the Maker, Jesus who is God, "because he knew‘ the treasure of faith that was stored in the believing soul of the centurion, of his own will condescended to humble himself and said to him, « 1° will come to tlıy house and heal thıy bondservant from his sickness ». And these words drew out his whole heart and poured it forth and showed it to everyone; for he believed him to be himself true God; and he ον θα to him,
1. Corr. “ Lord '. — 2. Marg. &xarövrapyos. — 3. Ps. xLıv, 22. — 4. Id. xxxIı, 15 ZXX (cited as xxxII) « He who fashioned their hearts alone, he who understandeth all their deeds. » — 5. Corr. ‘ knowing '. 6. Matth. vırı, 5-10. « But, when..... shall be healed. And 1 also..... and have many soldiers under
my POWET..... such faith "» (verbal diff.). Reff. also to Luke vır, 2-9, John IV, 46-50.
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« Speak the word only and I know that my bondservant will he healed. If I, who ama soldier', and bound under the authority of an earthly king, command the soldiers® under my power, how much more dost thou, my Lord who art the Maker of all the hosts of angels, say ’ all that thou wishest and it is accomplished ‘1? Therefore, Lord, we beg, confirm us also in thy commandments and in the orthodox faith, as being good and mereiful.
On Simon’s mother-in-law.
40 — νι — VI. — « Thou art God that hast done wonders » °. — Even in things that were performed and done by thee, Christ, God, according to the dispensation as in a more human fashion there is found something befitting God, and Tits rays flash‘ forth the more and Tenlighten the eyes of our mind’. When, my Lord, the mother-in-law ® of Peter was confined to bed and vered by a fever, like a physician thou tookest her by the hand, and raisedst
LXNVIT, 14. — 6. Gorr. ° the light flashes ’. — 7. Gorr. ‘ enlightens our souls ’. — 8. Matth. vııı,
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her whole from her disease : and this seems a' small thing, and it is not very wonderful; but the Godhead was® in a hidden manner mixed with it, in that she who had been confined to bed’, Tas soon as' she arose, immediately° and at once began to carry out and perform such things as persons ἴῃ full health are wont to do, so that those who saw it did not even perceive at all that she had ever been sick, by reason of the change that had been sudden/y wrought in her. But visit our wretched souls also that are sorely inflamed by the burning and destroying darts of the devil and raise them according to thy grace and thy great mercy.
On the miracle that Jesus did when the apostles were being tossed
on the sea of Tiberias.
Al — vın — VI. — « For thy works are high and my soul knoweth it well »". — Though thy God-befitting miracles which thou didst 7, Christ, God, thou who art the Wisdom of the Father, are above conception, thou didst
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through them bring it about that it should be believed that in thy love thon becamest man truly' and without variation, and thou causedst the human ἢ acts to go before the divine acts, showing through the two that thou art one and the same without division. When thou wast about to show plainly that thou art Lord and Maker of this universe, of thine own will thou didst yield to the ordinances of nature, and thou who art awake didst truly and in human fashion sleep in the boat*, and resting on the eushion didst slumber and take rest : and astorm prevailed upon the sea, and the boat was being driven ἡ to destruction,; and thou as knowing not wast still, thou who knowest all; and in the mouth of the disciples were being said the words, « Our Lord, help’ me for behold! we perish » : and so, having awoken and risen up, thou saidst in commanding fashion to the winds and the sea, « I say to thee be still and refrain »; and the furmoil of the storm was calmed. And therefore we
Jesus..... perish ., And he ariselh anı rebuked..... calm » (verbal diff.). Ref. also to Luke vıır, 22-25. — 4. Gorr. # wrecked '. — 5. Corr. ‘ save.
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— 6 Corr. joy (sie). — f Corr. -.
beg thee, still in thy grace the turmoil of passions that is in us, bestowing
upon our souls the ' peace that comes from thee.
On the harlot.
12 — vi — V.— «1said I will confess my transgression to the Lord »". — The®.evil and abominable love which the harlot had exchanged and divided with many lovers, entieing them to destruction, she instead after the manner of a merchant and in approved fashion gathered all together in repentance and poured out upon Jesus the Saviour of all whom she had loved; and she desired and yearned for the undying and passionless beauty, from which "she gained ' purilication for herself; and, mingling love with fear, inasmuch as she ° [eared greatly, she wetted the feet of the Saviour of us all with her tears; and, inasmuch as she loved, she kissed these; and she was admitted to receive |
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from him forgiveness of sins. Therefore bestow upon us also such penitence and the forgiveness that comes from it, thou that art mereiful and rich
On Jairus’ daughter.
43 — ıx — VI. — « Good isthe Lord and his merey is over all his works »". — Even to Jairus the head and ruler of the synagogue of the Jews that was presumptuous and Teontended against God’ Christ gave pity and help, « he who maketh the sun to rise on the good and the evil, and his rain to fall on the just and on the unjust »*. For’ this man’s daughter Thad died and been laid out® for burial; and concerning her "the very one” who changed death by means of the Resurrection and made it into sleep answered and said, « Why are
j 1. Corr. “ merey’. — 2. Ps. cxrıv, 9. — 3. Corr. ὁ hostile ᾿. — 4. Malth. v, 4%, 45. — 5. Id. ıx, 18, 19 « And, while..... aruler and drew near and worshipped..... and went wilh him », 23-26 « And Jesus..... “ Withdraw ye. The damsel..... by the hand and raised the damsel. And (hat report.....
country. » (verbal diff.), Mark v, 43. — 6, Corr. ‘ was laid out dead '. — 7. Gorr. : he’.
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ye disturbed ? She is not dead, but sleepeth ». And they who were mourning for her who had been for some ' time laid out as Ta corpse mocked and jeered at him. But he by saying, « Damsel, arise »?, cut away from her as God the bonds of death; and so Tafter raising her’ just as if he were a physician who cured and raised !the sick person‘ he commanded them to let her be fed; wishing by an action such as this both to conceal the God-befitting miracle, and to teach us lowliness of mind. And therefore with astonishment let us ofler praise to his wisdom and to his power and give thanks to his great merey.
On the two blind men.
44 — x — V. — « Have merey upon me, Lord, have merey upon me »’. — When Christ was passing by a certain place on the way, two blind men* followed and came after him, "who eried’ and said, « We pray, Son of David, have
1. Corr. ὁ along ᾿. — 2. Corr. ‘ dead laughed at him. And by saying, « Damsel, arise, » he’. — 3. Corr. ‘ when she had risen ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ her ihat was sick’. — 5. Ps. cxxı, 3 zxx. — 6. Matth.
ΙΧ, 27-30. « When Jesus..... house, these blind men..... opened. » — 7. Corr. ‘ erying'.
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mercy upon us ». But he suffered the voice of "their prayer to be prolonged ' until he had completed his journey and entered the house, and, when he found that they continued, and yearned* to see light, he asked them if they believed that he was able to do this; and they Fin faith® answered him, « Yea, Lord, for we have named' thee to be the Son of David, confessing the truth of the Incarnation on our behalf,; and we Tare convinced that thou art Lord of angels and of hosts® ». And, when they had heard him say to them the words, « According to your faith be it unto you », their eyes were opened and they saw. And® we ourselves pray, Lord, bestow on us the light of the orthodox faith, according to the abundance of thy great mercy.
On the man whose hand was withered.
45 — xı — VI. — « They have sharpened their tongue like that of a
1. Corr. ‘ And, having prolonged their prayer '. — 2. Corr. ‘ asked '. — 3. Corr. | believingly '. — 4. Gorr. ‘ called ’. —5. Corr. ‘ know thee to be Lord of hosts also '. — 6. Corr, ‘ And therefore ἡ.
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serpent »'. — The? people of the Jews that is fond of finding fault and eontends with God, that is Tstrenuous in’ evil deeds, but sluggish towards virtue, blamed‘ Christ the doer of good deeds because he healed souls afllieted with bodily disease on the Sabbath and freed them from their pains : for The ἃϑ the Son and Word of God and the Father, who had himself given them the law, Tknew that it did not forbid men ® to do acts tending to the deliverance of souls on the Sabbath-day; for it said, « 'No’ man shall* do works upon it, save only those that are done by every soul ». For this reason also on the same Sabbath-day he by word only ordered a certain man "whose hand was withered° to stretch this forth, and it was stretched forth whole. And thus he taught the unjust accusers themselves when they saw it that because they had hands withered for the purpose of doing good actions they dishonoured
the Sabbath; he that is teacher of all things and God, as well as mereiful.
1. Ps. cxxxıx, 4. — 2. Matth. χα, 9-13 « Jesus withdrew.... and raiseitup. For how much better..... like its fellow. » — 3. Corr. ‘ zealous for ᾿. —- 4. Unintelligible corr. — 5. Corr. ‘ since he is’. — 6. Corr. “he knew that it was not forbidden ’. — 7. Ex. ΧΙ, 16 zxx « The first day shall be called holy; and the seventh day shall be set apart and holy unto you, and ye shall do no servile work on them. Ne- | vertheless such things as shall be done by every soul, these only shall be done by you. » — 8. Corr. | ‘ Ye shall not ’. — 9. Corr. ‘ who had a withered hand ', |
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Again hymns on the miracles that remained over and on which the holy Severus did not compose hymns; but they are the composition of John son of Aphthonia, first archimandrite of Kenneshre.
On the Canaanite woman.
46 — xıı —IV. — « Come hearken and I will tell all of you the works of God »'.— Very great is the faith of the Canaanite woman, and it goes beyond and surpasses the power of speech. This woman, ες abandoned and spurned the error of demon-worship and the eustoms of her fathers, went after the Saviour of all, erying, « Have mercy upon me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is grievously possessed® by a demon »; and, when she was called adog, she asked him for a dog’s food : therefore she received the children’s food, hearing the words, « Go, be it unto thee even as thou wilt » : and so from
1. Ps. Lxv1, 16. — 2. Matth. xv, 21-28 « And Jesus..... But she came to him and said, ‘ Lord, help me’ He saith to her..... And the woman was healed from that hour » (verbal diff.). Ref. also to Mark vır, 24-30. — 3. Corr, ‘ driven.
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that time she gained for her daughter freedom to the full from the operation of the demon. Her faith let us imitate, asking Christ, who is God, for forgiveness of sins and the riches of his great merey.
On the widow’s son.
47 — χπὶ — VIII. — « Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol »'. — Inasmuch as thou art God and knowest fevery thing before it” happens, and knewest that the only son? of the widow "was about to' meet thee at the gate of the city of Naim, thou camest to him, Saviour, of thine own will : and, Tas soon as’ thou hadst seen him, thou commandedst them to cause the bier that carried him to stand still; and, having taken him by the hand and eried*, « Boy, I say unto thee, rise », thou cleavedst the bonds of death and releasedst him from them; thereby prefiguring the perfect resurreetion, which thou wast
1. Ps. xxx, 4 25x. — 2. Corr. ‘ all (things) before they '. — 3. Luke vır, 11-16 « And it befell..... carried it stood still. And he said, ‘ Young man..... his people » (verbal diff.). — 4. Gorr. ‘ should ᾿. — 5. Corr. “ when’. — 6. Corr. ‘ said’.
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pleased to bestow upon the race of us men, through thy Cross and death. Wherefore quicken our souls also which are' dead in sin through repent ance and contrition; bestowing upon all of us the riches of tlıy great mercy.
On the man who had a legion in him.
48 — xıy — I. — « Thou hast shown thy power among the peoples ν΄. — Once, when thou camest as man into the country of the Gadarenes, Christ, torments recognised thee as God’: wherefore they eried, « What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of the living God? Hast thou come before the time in order to torment us?» Having driven these from thy ereation, thou sentest them into the herd as they asked; thereby showing that, unless thou hadst permitted it, they would not have dared to assail '
1. Corr. “is”. — 2. Ps. ıxxvun, 15 zxx. — 3. Matth. vıı, 28-32 « And, when Jesus..... fo toT- ment me?’. Now there was above them a great herd feeding; and the demons..... water » (verbal diff.), Reff. also to Mark v, 1-14, Luke vyııı, 26-33. — 4. Corr. ‘ assailed '.
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even the swine. Accordingly "we offer praise to thee for thy incomprehensible Judgments ', mighty Lord Omnipotent.
49 — xv — VI. — « To show thy mightiness to men » °. — When thou wast about, Christ, God, to raise thy friend Lazarus from among the dead, and to do the sign of the miracle performed upon him by thy God-befitting power (for he had been four days Tin the grave and had already begun to putrify ὅ), then thou showedst many human qualities, since‘ thou didst weep and pray and ask° as a man, « Where have ye laid him? », and by erying with thy voice and saying, « Lazarus, come forth », thou raisedst alive the
1. Corr. ‘ praising thy judgments, we glorify thee, the '. — 2. Ps. axLıv, 12 zxx. — 3. Corr. “ having already undergone the putrifaction of the grave ’. — 4. John xt, 1 « There was there a certain..... and of Martha », 33-40 « But Jesus..... four days ᾿. Jesus said lo her... thal stone », 43, Al.
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dead man who was wrapped in a shroud and bound and girt with graveclothes; showing by the two things which thou didst that thou art one and the same God incarnate without variation and indivisible, who doest acts befitting God and human acts. And therefore free and release us also from the chains and fetters and passions' of sin, according to the abundance of thy great merey.
On the man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
50 — xvı —I.— «Man was made like to vanity ν΄. — A’ man, having left Jerusalem his first country, "full of peace', that is the blessed delight in Paradise, descended to Jericho which is low and lies in a valley and is a place of much toil, or the conversation of this world of time. Wherefore also, having fallen Tinto the hands of suprasensual robbers°, he was stripped
1. Corr. “our passions’. — 2. Ps. exııı, A ZAN. — 3. Luke x, 30-35 (verbal diff.). — 4. Gorr.
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by passions : but God, who became incarnate for our sake and ' was called a Samaritan, when he had seen him Iying raised him up and made him ride upon his own beast, and brought him and delivered him to the church, which like an inn receives every man? : whom let us all beg to save and reseue us from the wounds of our secret stripes, and to make his light to shine in the
souls of us all.
The hymns of the archimandrite on the miracles are ended.
AGAIN HYMNS ON THE RECEPTION OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS ÜHRIST.
δ]. ı — III. — « Understand, ye foolish among the people » '. — Come ye now, children of disobedience, bend and incline your ears to the voice of the theology sung by‘ the little children ®, and perceive carefully how they
dur? ya „"Sboojsas Lusao| "rel τ᾽ maadcd dam gran > worin, om hop hair 0 05 bass μὲ No’lam ..8}}; ol, AN yD ul aim ,aam „assa mid [5] Ss; Alla Naxslo ..poiss aus, ha Fass ’uumunaldh hal
a Corr. 5. — b Corr. » (to precede). — e Corr. „ass soo. — d Üorr. [1 Sole. — h Marg. yt pol ‚a Iooı Padas „pas ‚ans Joou sr a8 Iso] Dar. (510) A uolo ua „so PS ofoj pl anasıl.
eried out and praised' him that was riding upon a vile colt, the foal of an ass, as if he were mounted on a chariot of cherubim, saying*, « Hosanna in the heights! Blessed Tart thou that hast come in humility and shalt come ’ again
52 — ıı — IV. — « Lord God of my salvation »'. — What shall we admire of the things that happened at thy entrance’, Son of God, who for our sake becamest incarnate? The vileness of the things seen or the God-befitting eharacter of the things understood? When I see the ass’s colt‘, I understand the people taken from among the peoples, Lord, whom thou didst release from the bonds of error” and upon whom thou didst spiritually sit and rest, as upon the back of the holy cherubim; when the branches and garments and robes that they strewed and spread upon the ground, I think ofthee, my Lord, who saidst to thy disciples, « Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world » ἡ, and hast persuaded and strengthened and caused those
I. Corr. “ praising ’. — 2. Corr. ‘ they ceried '. — 3. Corr. ‘ is he that hath come and cometh
— 4. Ps. LxxxvIu, 2. — 5. Corr. ‘ reception '. — 6. Matth.xxr, 7, Mark xt, 7, Luke xıx, 35, John xt oa > ca ya bl sollas „2 : goes bl ans ..Ksoopsas Jusao] ad won lo Js oo "Moooı sy_N® „Moor Js Las 0 Jod), „lo ‚n£lalina u Is] Sa vumın
a Corri ser. — b Corr. uns. — c Corr. | (sie). — d Corr. o Jam. — 6 Corr. al. — Corr. yras. — g Corr. μ5}.
who have believed in thee to strip off readily for thee not garments and raiment only, but also their own very flesh : when I see the leaves of high palmtrees, and hear the little children erying and saying, « Hosanna in the heights! », I cry with them, recognising thee to be the same, earthly and heavenly;andI say, « Blessed art thou that hast come and shalt come ' again. »
53 — m — I. — « Before all the people »". — Very great is the depth of the holy God-befitting mystery ofthy Humanization, Christ. Even in the very conditions, humble and human, of the dispensation of the voluntary exinanition there clearly flashes® forth the height of thy Godhead that is glorious and beyond approach. For lo!, when thou wast sitting upon the colt, the foal of an ass, and entering Jerusalem the holy eity, for the saving Passion, as if thou wast divinely sitting‘ upon the cherubim, and being carried up in glory to beaven, thou wast recognised’ by the great concourse" of those who aceompanied thee. For, as’ before the Lord of Tereated things*, they
t. Corr. “ comest”. — 2. Ps. exv, 14, 18. — 3. Corr. © shines ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ mounted '. — 5. Unintelligible corr. — 6. Gorr. “ multitude and ’. — 7. Corr. “ also ‘. — 8. Corr. “ all
[97] ON THE RECEPTION ΟΕ OUR SAVIOUR. 97
a2, |sas > Adırda . JoonaS Jedi; el Joa (As » :Joot smadure Foo „> ooine! .keojsas Jal Linse] .molıs oa Juno]
spread and strewed garments and robes on the ground before thee; and as to the mereiful God they bare olive-branches and brought them near before thee; so also they "glorified thee with palm-leaves as' the high God. To Tthese things® therefore witness is borne by the true’ and sincere utterance of the babes who praised thee and said, « Hosanna* in the heights! Blessed art thou that hast come in humility and shalt come’ again in glory. »
54 — ıv — VII. — « Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord »°. — The God of the prophets, of whom David sang, prophesying that which was to come to pass and saying, « Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou confirmed and established praise »”, he to-day, sitting upon a vile ass’s eolt, is praised by little children erying* to him, « Hosanna to the Son of David! Hosanna above ın the heights! », and confessing the same to be in the flesh Son of David and the high God the Son of God. Wherefore, while we marvel with the same divine prophet, let us say with great and God-befitting” astonishment, « Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is thy name
I. Corr. * stretched palm-leaves over as for‘. — 2. Corr. ‘ this also’. — ‘3, Corr. ‘ unaflected’. — of the mouth of babes and of sucklings thou hast established praise. » — 8. Corr. ‘ who cry ’. — 9. (ΟἿ. “ in God-befitting fashion ’.
px wol {1} Ill, oa Wedur? Ira Hirardıa Ja aa Jul <- | z10lo Kusaa Lies oe ol »goadsais op ag “us — I—- mn — ‚or lass wat) „aasama all Jay δ I] Dil yo "am do oo las san “Lou ko Ads mus Lisa
illeg.). — f Corr. po» Ho; (510) Ss otul oh. — g Corr. ji. — h Corr. aus. —
1. A Io DSo: — 2. B sing. A }P*aol>
in allthe earth! »', and together with the infant* children let us all sing and say, « Blessed Tart thou that hast come and comest* again with glory, who from a tender and ineomplete age didst confirm and establish perfect and complete praise, praise to thee! »
bring to the Lord glory and honour ν΄. — Ye that are desirous of spiritually meeting Christ our Saviour and the heavenly God, honour his riding or sitting upon the wile colt, the foal of an ass; and subdue and assuage bestial lusts and the /oul pleasures of the flesh; and through * the prineiples concerning’ the faith which the* doctors” of the church rightly '" proclaimed or laid down for us raise '' yourselves in your minds to a height as Tif they were! a palm-tree, and thus Through resplendent'” expressions of theology utter praise'’ as with white leaves from palm-trees, offering '' praise to his great merey with Hosannas or with'” olive-branches'", and saying with the babes,
1. Ps. vi, 2 (not quoted). — 2. Corr. * infants ἡ. — 3. Gorr. “is he that hath come and cometh ᾿. — 1. Ps. exLıx, 2. —5. Id. xıx, 1. — 6. Corr. © upon '. — 7. Corr. © of’. — 8. Corr. “ bythe ’. — 9. Illeg: corr. — 10. Corr. “ were righily ἡ. — 11. Corr. “ raising ᾿. — 12. Corr. * by illustrious ᾿. — 13. Gorr. ‘ praise him ἡ. — 14. Corr. ‘ singing asong of’. — 15. Corr. ‘ by means of’. — 16. Marg. A « That by
means of palm-branches he should be praised as exalted is taken from the faet itself, inasmuch as a
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a Corr. poozsas.— b Corr. Sets. — € Corr. »o.— ἃ Corr. jloituse Jjo.
« Hosanna in the height '! Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that hath come and shall come*. »
56 — vi — ΤΙ. — « The Lord is high above all peoples » '. — If, when Jesus the Saviour of all was sitting upon an ass’s colt, the little children recognised him to be God, since they called him Son of David, and sang « Praise in the heights! » and all offered him this praise, and all together with one voice eried and said, « Hosanna to the Son of David! Hosanna in the heighis! », let us also, brethren, not separate Emmanuel into two in any wise, but bless and worship the same person with the Father and the Holy Spirit, inasmuch own will became man without variation, and let us prepare ourselves for his second coming from heaven through the performance of good deeds; in order that in place of branches we may meet him with our virtues blooming with palm-tree is high; [but] that by means of olive-branches he should be considered to be praised as mercilul is not taken from the fact itself, but..... from the similarity of sound of the name for mercy in the Greek tongue to the name for [olive] : for there are two Greek words elee, ‘ an olive ', and elee
1. Gorr. “ heights '. — 2. Corr. “ cometh again’. — 3. Ps. cxrır, 4. — A. Corr. * who ᾿. —5 Gorr.
da ala Musjas SA JÄN; Jaso Nehus, nn aaa
ἃ Corr. joraso. — b Corr. Ikea» (perh. preceded by another word). — © Gorr. Ag; ΙΝ —_ e Corr. suu. — f Corr. .. — g Corr. os; (sic). — h Corr. τῶ 3585 (Sic).
gladness, and, stripped of the suprasensual raiment of wickedness, we may stand before that judgment-seat (βῆμα), and receive ' forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his great mercy.
57 — vır — VII. — « Out of the mouth of boys and of children thou hast established praise »*. — When of thine own will and with desire for the sake of the salvation of our race thou wast about to come” and deliver thyself to the Passion through‘ the Zife-giving Cross, some’ time before thou saidst to thy disciples, Christ, God, « I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer »°. For thou wast about, my Lord, to overcome and destroy the iyrant death who had prevailed over us by means of a Resurrection after three days. And so, when at the same time thou wast making an entry into Jerusalem with thy disciples, and wast sitting upon the borrowed” colt, the foal of an ass, they who came to meet thee honoured thee with vietory-clad leaves, some of palm, as the exalted one, and some of olive as the mereciful
1. Gorr. * be admitted to’. — 2. Ps. ὙΠ], 3.— 3. Corr. “ coming '. — 4. Corr. “ of’. — 5. Corr. “a long ’. — 6. Luke xxıı, 14-16 « And, when..... and the twelve apostles also with him..... in the kingdom of God’. » — 7. Β΄ vile '.
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one who had pity and merey on our race '. Butthe mouth of babes, which at the instigation of the Holy Spirit and not of the teaching of men Teried out in wonder and declared® that after thy Passion thou shouldst not abide in death, but rise and come in glory, said, « Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord »; Lord of all, praise to thee!
The hymns on the Hosannas are ended.
Hyuns on Jupas THE TRAITOR AND ON THE PAsSSIOoN OF OUR SAVIOUR.
58 —ı — ΤΙ. — « Fear the Lord, all his saints »°. — Ifthe devil, while holding the rank of an angel, was of his own will‘ affeeted with the vice of pride and fell from on high, for whom Isaiah the prophet also lamented, saying, « How hath the morning-star fallen! », who by reason of being lifted up with arrogance became darkness, let no one wonder at Judas Iscariot, who
alter receiving selection and rank as an apostle in "the power and under the
11, adding, « But in the version used by the Greeks he says. ‘ How hath the morning-star fallen! ».
102 HYMNS OF SEVERUS. [102] A aa Ἀ] lawadasen rZientaas ll] olsiker Ioyso Kubas ol haja ai); Jo >arsir Kuos op [Nraasl ms) Acadı ‚Hazape hrfh Isola ISA u WDuar ‚Los zu] Joı Moped τ ya, LuısS seuNslass duaurta :fsamas Im,yas
impulse of his freedom was seized' with the disease of treachery ; but in astonishment let a man offer praise to the "long-suffering of his Master’, God who became incarnate, how even after such corruption he wished to restore him again through* the wise admonitions Fol his teaching‘, while he did not as Creator put constraint upon the uncontrolled liberty of his freedom ; but thenceforward, Tin order that the dispensation might be brought to completion®, he worked together with him in order to accomplish the treason, enduring the saving Cross on our behalf in the flesh and overcoming death and trampling on its power : to whom also let us offer praise, saying, « Incomprehensible one, praise to thee! »
59 — 1m — ΤΙ, — « Thou art God who hast done wonders »°. — From the acts” themselves which thou didst we have known thee to be the wise Maker and renewer of the* nature of men, Christ, God. As in the beginning, when thou createdst’ Adam and placedst him in the Paradise of delight, and didst admit him to and gavest him a share in intercourse with thee, thou puttest
1. Gorr. “ uucontrolled impulse was afleeted '. — 2. Corr. ‘ absence of resentment (representing ἀν- completion of the dispensation '. — 6. Ps. ıxxvuu, 15. — 7. Corr. ‘ deeds ᾿. — 8. Corr. ‘ our ἡ, —
9. Gorr. “ formedst ".
[108] ON JUDAS THE TRAITOR. 103 Sr or "us .)lausadan al Ian Mus) 2 von „cal, wwoaun.alg; ADsio [ads Als, |Nasaıs Na assoms As aus aD ai, os Janis Lad : Mluou Nalo Asyas yMllo SA jarklı dl od 2 art ul — 0 — Aue
a Corr. u». — b Corr. jlausssas. — C Corr. pas. — d Corr: pp Sau. — e (ΟΡ.
zasils us „so Joy “ooluls (sie) PLhasam. — ı Corr. Hans.
no constraint on the freedom of will which thou bestowedst upon him as God, but of himself! he transgressed the commandment, so also thou didst admit Judas to thy familiarity and teaching, and, having made him to share in reclining at table with thee at the mysterious supper as being good, thou didst bear with him after he had Fof his own accord betaken himself* to treachery : but, Fin that after many admonitions thou didst consent to kiss him with the kiss of greeting, thou didst signify and show elearly that thou lovest the race of men ® that is deserving of hatred, and so thou enduredst ' the eross accepted on their behalf, suflering in the flesh and rising in marvellous fashion from among the dead. Praise to thee!
60 — πι- VI. — « Our fathers told us » ’. — All the circumstances of thy coming in the flesh for the sake of our salvation, Christ, God, are good and lead to salvation. Even Judas in that he was enrolled among the twelve apostles“ and is of their number, and "turned aside ” to the passion of avarice
1. Corr. “ his own will’. — 2. Corr. ‘ received an impulse’. — 3. Corr. ‘ when after so many admonitions thou hadst even greeted him with the greeting of the kiss, signifying-plainly by this that because (hou lovest mankind ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ tookest upon thee’. — 5. Ps. xuıy, 2 LXX. — 6. Acts τ, 15-17 « And
in those same days Peter having stood up in the midst of the disciples said, ‘ [It was right] that this, scripture should be fulfilled, which..... with us’ » (verbal diff.), Luke xvır, 3. — 7. Corr, * fell away’.
— f Corr. sp. — g Corr. ya kawsoruss.
4. Marg. B νηψιν, A mark of ref., but marg. blank. — 5. Marg. B eypnyopsw, A mark of ref., but marg.
and was seized by it, and behaved deceitfully and betrayed thee who art the source oflife, by actual fact eries and says to us that which is said by Paul, « Let him that thinketh he standeth Ttake heed lest he' fall »’. But that thou God that knowest the hearts shouldst "kiss with the kiss of peace’ a man who had such evil deceit‘ in him makes us quake with fear at the boundless and merciful greatness of condescension; for behold! even to the very lowest depth of destruction thou stretchest forth a hand to them that are [near to perish’, expecting to receive our willing repentance only. \WVherefore, we beg, bestow upon us watchfulness® and sleeplessness” of mind, delivering us from the nooses and nets of despair, as being pitiful and mereiful.
1. Corr. “ see that he do not’. — 2.I Cor. x, 12 « Therefore let him that thinketh he standetlı
[105] ON THE HOLY OINTMENT, 105
or» :kunam y>et ee Er dur undhal . usäs woraN Luc Naslo :locı JNSs0 Nuasol| wdı.ia ‚ya Jaams | ojaw duaarf urn | aa sim gs sch Ja .aduah [al udn] „uleat ’nusaman
jNäaL Nusal oo. — 6 Corr. „ (with mark of abbr.) | (sie). — f Corr. passe. 1. A 4209. — 3. A om., ins. above as corr. — 3. A Par:
61 — ı — VII — « As the oil that runneth down upon the head and upon the beard »'. — Thy exinanition, Christ, wherein thou didst empty ® thyself for the sake of our salvation, taking the likeness of a bondservant and ' being even so complete as God, has sweetened and filled the whole earth witlı the sweet savour of spiritual gifts. \WVherefore thy holy church, because it has been mysteriously anointed and become a bride, and has looked into and beheld the Holy of Holies, has made answer to thee, my Lord, saying‘, « Thy we will run. "The king hath brought me into his chamber »°. Therefore we beg and entreat, at this hour also remove not this grace from us nor deprive us of it; but cleanse and hallow both the anointing’ and them that are anointed by it, according to the greatness of thy merey and of thy grace.
1. Ps. cxxxır, 2.— 2. Philipp. 11, 7 (not quoted). — 3. Corr. ‘ while '. — 4. Corr. ‘ says '. — 5. Unintelligible corr. — 6. Cant. I, 2, 3 (not quoted). — 7. Corr. “ oil ἡ.
106 » "HYMNS OF SEVERUS. [106]
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This hymn is not in Greek; and on that account it is thought to be the composition of Mar Paul, who translated the hymns of the holy Mar Severus from . Greek into Syriac.
62 — ır — L — « Thou hast exalted one chosen from the people » '. — Moses, who spake to God face to face, never ofliciated at a great mystery
such as this : Aaron, the priest of the law, at no time offered immortal oblations : the oil which once sprang from the rock was not able to remit the sins ofthe people. With greater things than these hast thou been entrustwhich hallow and sanctify the souls of us all.
ΟΝ THE WwASHING on Maunpy TuunspaY; THE COMPOSITION OF JOHN
SON OF ÄPHTHONIA.
63 — 1 — II. — « Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity ν᾽. « The Lord hath done great things for us »’. — To-day the mystery of love is given more clearly as a deposit to the holy disciples by the Maker, God the Word . and the wise Teacher, in that he clad himself in lowliness after the manner
1. Ps. LXXXIX, 20. — 2. Ps. LI, 4. — 3. Ibid. cxxv, 2 LAX,
107 ON PILATE’S WIFE. - 407 ads Nasa „malı “on Ard, Lıia.] as u (ald „al
Ags2a> ie sorlo ‚uapiun Luo Hope Saao „ol yamo (sie) mas. 0 „ao ΔΙ [ol Lado au κω (sic). — d Corr. Sn nl ge 75. — € Corr. jaal. — f Corr.nsa;».
of a bondservant and bound a linen eloth round his loins, as the Theologian ceries'. Come therefore, let all of us who have gained cleansing through the divine laver of regeneration entreat with supplication Tand say’ to the Saviour®, « Behold and see, my Lord, and neglect not the foulness "wherewith the hidden motions of our souls have been stained by the deceitful and suprasensual serpent, but now also bow ὁ thyself again to us from heaven, and grant us all to be admitted to thy discipleship, and purge and wash away [rom our heel the wound made by’ the dragon, in order that we may also trample upon him and upon all his strength; and direct our paths by thy grace in the orthodox faith and gird us all with the bonds of love, as thou art "rich in merey “ and full of human kindness.
Os PILATE’sS WIFE.
64 — ı — VI. — « Because the mouth of liars shall be stopped »΄. — By all methods, Christ, God, even in things that appear to be contemptible, thou
pent has placed in the motions of our souls, but bowing '. — 5. Corr. “ ol. —6. Corr. “ mereiful ἡ.
Ns] Kan russ J Jeaaı „ol IMuär (False SuLso ‚Larry ”osdo „a J ,atal, Hal Loc LIE LS, walls or oe bi] Tun 5] „or la al Li > smaure az ADS u] I JE "ul "aan ar ya
rer. — 6 Marg. ul Eie Saas Jod) [πο Au Pl las P yorer Ihe > gr wwafjlıs „Nuss Nso
placedst a bit in the shameless mouth of the Jews. Accordingly Pilate’s wife, having even by means of visions and dreams been confirmed and brought 10 believe, openly sent a message to her husband, « Have thou nothing to do "with that ' just man; for I have suffered many things through’ a dream to-day because of him’ »; so that he also washed his hands with water in the sight of everyone, saying*‘, « l am guiltless of the blood of this just man »°. ThenTthe bloodthirsty wicked men drew® destruction upon themselves, saying, « This man's blood be upon us all and upon our children »; but thee they’ showed forth as God, who art not the cause of evil things, and who wishest to "give life® to our race and not to destroy it as being mereiful.
ON THE ROBBER.
65 — ı — V. « This is the change of the right hand of the Most
1. Gorr. “ before this ᾿. — 2. Corr. “in '. — 3. Matth. xxvıı, 19. — 4. Corr. “ and said ’. — 5. Ibid. 24, 25. — 6. Gorr. “ also let the wicked men draw '. — 7. Corr. ‘ let them ’. — 8. Corr. ‘ save ”.
[109] ON THE ROBBER. 109 BO EN adar Halo kam u] os Pr Da Nun Jh :las Jan.saıı Kram IN! Aa ya Joot „NS 13 ")
"al ehasumn Nas, Js us Lido ur „lo
„sau on el „plasssas Al [Lly ho use uispl] „was ;20/0 „od aaa Y him yo ur μοὶ Srall m al] ua horn [Ajolo Kiss za Od HI also biafiso „joe Jadtas Kasası JLaadıso fra. —
1. A Srpliso. — 2. A gran.
High »'. — The robber by passing many nights without sleep made spoil οἱ all things that moth and rust corrupted; and by means of them he kindled more fiercely for himself the flame of the fire of hell that is not quenched : but, when he was about to sleep the last sleep, that is to undergo death, and was fastened and hanging on the tree, having in the very passion of the cross marvellously recognised God who had become incarnate and was being erucified with him and like him, he believed on him without hesitation; and then by his tongue he broke into the kingdom by erying and saying fo him, « Remember me, my Lord, when thou comest m thy kingdom »°; and like a violent man he by means of a few words of faith took it by force’, in accordance with thy true‘ saying, Christ, God : to which admit us also by thy grace, as thou art good and merciful.
daD uam had Lo "oliol Alz wär PAsyaso . Jo
Haas μὲ .Jod) Jaa zoo! Joy Io) Hans sad Joy P Jo (510) Laser ohel „ar od} Kuna wars
66 — ı — VI. — « Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death »'. — Though there are many methods of slaying*, thou tookest upon thee to suffer death by means of the eross on our behalf in the flesh, Christ, God, "and didst declare‘ that thy emptying thyself® thus far brought exaltation to the whole race of men°®. For thou saidst to the people of the Jews before the Passion, erying openly, « And I, when I have been lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me »’. Mereiful and exalted Lord, all praise
67 — 11 V. — « The earth saw and quaked » ‘. — The signs, O! Saviour, that happened after the Cross showed that thou sufferedst all in the flesh of thine own will for us. For, as soon as thou hadst fulfilled the dispensa-
1. Ps. ıx, 14. — 2. Corr. * While '. — 3. Corr. “ lorture '. — A. Gorr. ‘ declaring '. — 5. Philipp. Ir, 5-7 « Have in your soul the mind..... (hought this not a prize that he should be equal to God, but..... death. » 6. Corr. ‘ to so great an extent brought about the exaltation of all mankind'. — 7. John xıl, 31-33. — 8. Ps. xCVIl, 4 LXX,
[111] ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST. 111
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«-" Ns] na uam as; > fa ai .. Jo yN| >> „|
tion on our behalf, and in opposition to the iyranny of death hadst undergone death ın order to destroy it, the sun was obscured in darkness, and the earth ἢ quaked, and the rocks too were rent, creation by Factual deeds' plainly confessing and proclaiming that thou art the Creator of this? universe, and true God; insomuch that even the centurion who stood before’ the cross cried, « In truth this was the Son of God »'. And therefore we praise thy ineffable merey toward our race.
68 — πὶ — VI. — « They spake with their lips and nodded their heads »°. — The mad and blasphemous multitude of the Jews, jeering’ and mocking at thy voluntary eross, said, « If thou art the Son of God, come down now from the eross that we may believe on thee ». But thou, who alone art longsuffering, didst by acts themselves ery out, « I have no contest with you
1. Corr. “ their means ᾿. — 2. Corr. * the '. — 3. Corr. * by’. — A. Matih, xxvır, 50-54 « But Jesus ἘΞ went into the eity of. Jerusalem, and..... feared greatly and say, ‘ Truly this was the Son οἵ God’ » (verbal diff.). — 5. Corr ‘ us‘. — 6. Ps. xxıt, 8, neither P nor LXX. — 7. Matlh. xxvır, 39-44 (verbal ana „alahmd oc. "omas Moos Bun} NSS [Lei Ass Ip ah pr hr du Dan Du; Ingo par DA ‚Las AA NDS aha Jia > ol Leis: any Judas „Lulu nano nina Los „to So ham
aB marg. .70.3 os} Ilasop se ne. — Ὁ Corr. kuss). — ὁ Marg. (sie) as ur) =Ner
now, ΟἹ ye of little understanding. But the time of your wickedness is already accomplished; and I now await the trial of death, in order that after undergoing it in the flesı I may render it dead and inoperative among you. But, when again ye shall have shut up my body also under the stone and yate ol the grave, and under 568] in security, then ye shall understand and know through my Resurreetion from among the dead that, though I could have come down from the eross if I wished, yet nevertheless 1 remained to raise the race of men through my three days’ burial ». Therefore we praise thee, mereiful Lord, who didst perform all things with wisdom' for our salvation, according to the abundance of thy great mercy.
69 — ıv — VI. — « Thy knowledge hath been admired by me »*. — Who is there who could fitly praise the boundless greatness of thy mereifulness,
Christ, God? who even in the very sullerings, mean and vile and very lowly, ıchich thou enduredst voluntarily on our behalf showedst that thou art Greator
1. Ps. cıv, 24 (not quoted). — 2. Ps. CXXxXVIIl, 6 LAX,
[113] ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST. 113
mean nam "Aspolo „(antad IL „ads AS ao Soll, [aäs, aly oa Da ur Nam) EIN Lad, Ss. Nas „ds ao :duula Nor. dam rum gar vi δ; "dal lan nam, La] polo Il μα dur ’seadn sah DJ Dassd urSs nam IN 200 uni] Aa [ala + ‚atsandırda oo ANA Hass „on "hiäs um
— e Corr. jiaofs), — f Marg. jetz „10 Itaaıg Asorif Jiro ‚codor hl Jasyg 8 .Jümalz ud το
1. B marg. yeıpoypapa. — 2. B mark of vref., but marg. blank. — 3. A pl.
and Lord and renovating' artificer of this universe. For thou tookest upon thee for the sake of our salvation to be erowned with a crown” of thorns; Fand by this means thou didst signifiy* that, having gathered and compressed together the sins of the ıchole circuit of the world, and having taken these upon thyself, thou didst carry them up‘ with thee upon the revered Cross. Wherefore also thou tarest and blottedst out the handwriting® of sin that was laid upon us; and again being mocked thou heldest a reed in thy hand, that thereby thou mightest strengthen the rod of our sway° that had been weakened, whereby we have been set to rule over all that are on earth; and, having gone down in thy soul to Sheol, thou didst free them that were there bound’; and the multitudes of the hosts® that are in heaven "wondered and were astonished at’ thy wisdom rich in help'" through the dispensation fon our behalf''. Lord, who hast enlightened and adorned with knowledge all creatures above and below, praise to thee!
1. Corr. “ renovator '. — 2. Matth. xxvır, 27-31 « Then the soldiers..... and smote on his head.... 6. Corr. ° power ’. — 7. Corr. ‘ in bondage’. — 8. Eph. ΠΙ, 8-10 (verbal diff.). — 9. Corr, ‘ recognised '. — 10. Corr. “ gifls ’. — 11. Corr. ‘ toward us ”.
krroßo rail, "lassen mıhlaxl am "All Sa Lo Naraso
70 — v — IV. — « Rise, Lord, into thy rest »'. — Lord’, who walkest on the wings of the wind, and stretehedst out thine hands on the wood of the venerable Cross, and hungest extended’ upon it of thine own will, and by this same type and figure showedst us that thou art the God of all the ends of the earth, who sufleredst on our behalf in the Ilesh by a voluntary passion, and through‘ faith in thee caughtest the robber as a fish, and thereafter wentest down ın thy soul to the lower parts of the earth, having in the air (ze) above and on the earth beneath and in Sheol overthrown and removed ® from us the sway of the tyrant death and the strong rule of the evil hosts, and rosest in marvellous fashion from among the dead, and didst ascend and wast lifted up to heaven, praise to thee!
The hymns on our Lord’s Passion are ended.
Cor. xv, 26, II Tim. 1, 10 « And hath now heen revealed by the revelation οἵ Jesus Christ..... and immortality », Heb. ır, 14 (verbal diff.).
0 lo ‚alla a5, Lad, reyuäyla Asaaıa . Juan
|aaro Jo; Hal passe soilo Kia wir ur aus8 „Jade Jade „Las |Nsol ars) Luxus Ὡς 9 ‚ars 0 u DAS Jo, oloopjao „kauf [510] is So 0 Banız Jos olanay Wo .Josis ‚bi hovap „is ars „u Jo ads ans „rim Jo .zaas panäl ans lat Jr um] (also Dl HL DH Say wol U Do Kilo Bad. — d Corr. , (to precede?)
ON THE HOLY Üross.
71 ıı — VII. « Everyone that sweareth by him shall be commended »'. — In thy life-giving Cross, OÖ! Christ, one may see a depth of riches® and of wisdom and of power. For, when thou who art the power of God wast fastened upon it, thou renderedst the wood of weakness or of the Cross a wood of God-befitting power : and, inasmuch as thou art? the wisdom of God and the Father, through him thou didst make and render those who proclaimed the gospel-tidings wise. Henceforth fishermen and unlearned men defeated and brought to naught the wisdom and the wise men of the world; and those who believed and were martyred from among the nations through their courage dissolved and put to shame the power of the tyrants. Before ' one piece of wood every piece of wood and stone that was carved and made a
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god lled and perished,; and every desire of the Nesh was already extinguished, having been killed by the nails of the cross : « for a blessed thing is the wood through which cometh righteousness »', as it is written. Praise to
72 — ı — IV. — « He restored my soul and led me in the paths of truth »®. — When l am bowed down to the earth through’ passions that are foul and full of turpitude, the mystery of the venerable Cross raises me to thy ewalted height, and fills me with impassibility. By showing that thou, God, who art impassible, becamest also passible in the flesh upon it, and with-
drawing me from the vain care of temporal things, and ὁ sending me to the
blessed hope of the Resurrection and of eternal life it is a token of vietory overthe demons. For thou art the Lord of glory’ who wast erucified upon it, who overcamest the® devil’ that hath the power of death, praise to thee!
. Wisd. χιν, 6, 7 LXX « From the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of δὲ world, having taken refuge in a boat, left to the world the seed of birth, having by thy hand
navigated the sea : for blessed is the wood through which cometh righteousness. » — 2. Ps. XXII, 3 — 3. Corr. * by’. — 4. Corr. “and by ᾿. — 5. I Cor. ı1, 8 « For, if they had known, they..... glory » verbal diff.). — 6. Gorr. “ hin’. — 7. Heb, τι, 14, 15 (verbal diff.).
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1. A H»030, corr. in later hand.
73 — πὶ — VO. — « Thou hast given me the shield of salvation »'. — Thy Cross, Ὁ Christ! contains the whole great mystery ol the knowledge concerning thee who art God’. For, when we [sign ourselves* with the mark of its seal, we streteh out and have upon ourselves thee who wast extended and hanged upon it of thine own will, but art in all things and hast "filled all quarters‘, and thus are preserved. It blesses and hallows the water of the laver of regeneration, and completes the rational, bloodless, spiritual sacrifice, and the whole ministerial’ ollice and sacred‘ service. Thou’ who wilt come at the end with glory to judge the quick and the dead shinest resplendently in heaven, and appearest to all men* in glory. \Wherefore we beg of thee, strengthen and arm us with it and prepare us to° stand before the dread judgment-court, and have mercy upon us. 1. Ps. xvıu, 36.— 2. Corr. * of God '. — 3. Corr. “are marked '. — 4. Corr. ‘ pervaded all quarters and aels’. — 5. Corr. “ priestly ᾿. — 6. Corr. “ perfeet’. — 7. Matth. xxıv, 27 (verbal diff.). — 8. Ibid.
This hymn also is the work of John son of Aphthonia.
74 — ıv — VI. — « Thou hast delivered my soul from troubles » '. — When Cross, and hadst dissolved Sheol and brought it to naught, my Saviour, then thou didst deliver and save me from the gates' of death, and didst cause a fountain
of life 10 flow forth from thy all-pure’ side and gavest itto me, praise to thee!
The hymns on the Cross are ended.
AGAIN HYMNS ON THE RESURRECTION OR HOLY SUNDAY.
75 — ı — VI. « He established the world that it should not move »"* « He wrought salvation in the midst of the earth »΄. — Thy life-giving Passion, even before the quickening Resurreetion, forebetokened the Trising of the dead* : for the graves were opened by a miracle, and many bodies"
filed '. — 6. Ps. xcıu, 1. — 7. Id. txxıv, 12 LXX, — 8. Gorr. ‘ resurreetion ’. — 9. Matth. xxvut, 51, 52.
[119] ON THE RESURRECTION OR HOLY SUNDAY. 119 as) Sl ‚hos al,> o00ı uam ml DiNisas aa lau „9 S kun urf io Aus Less loor Loans τυ 2yD husas INS Je ‚nZadhmna o Joan Js], DAo san wu 1007 jalsite Ss p — οἱ — 3 — as
a Corr. una rer. — b Corr. jsxisex. — c Corr. Inzaroı. — d Corr. ki. — 6 Corr. oo. „nass Joo yaleiy Jijel Jpasabl Lade :}5]> jansas Lak IL oio .Ipao ge Haas [Sb Io „Jans Kuss γϑαν 000} 10 Jmaadl ogjo ansca καθ .(SIC) „man HI Pr Yo Jiaas Aus 05; go Hab „oabaa „som Ipelo
Au kas Js Jul SS wppolo. — ἢ Corr. 109 Jam. — I Corr. „op.
of the saints that slept were quickened and rose; who, having gone into the holy eity of Jerusalem, showed themselves to many and were recognised by them; signifying that the fact that thou didst descend and 'shine in the gloomy and dark depths' of the earth, and didst dissolve and cut asunder the bonds of Sheol worked? perception in the dead who were laid within the graves, and cast in advance the blessed seed of the Trising of the dead?, which is promised to us and for which we hope. Lord of all, praise to thee!
76 — ır — V. — « My soul had almost dwelt in Sheol »΄. — Since a woman was the cause of sorrow to usat the beginning by persuading our father Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of which "they were forbidden ’ to eat, a woman was the first after® the angel to announce” thy life-giving
Resurrection, Christ, God. For thou didst overcome by force and dissolve at
and to the other disciple..... and that disciple...., together », 11-13 (verbal diff. in both). — 7. Marge.
aD ga Js LaaäDs „bj hose ‚eh dus Nor io ‚wLusara rl» wdıpnarda I. ans Jais
san 7207 (sie) Air ho oa Pro καὶ Pr K,oaaS woas;L/ly JLrama Jloyrm walls ro sormly
— e Corr. ausser (SIC) INsojso (SIC) INaass.
1.B au. — 2. A |Lokso: — 3. A bis. — 4. A 80059: — 5. A se
all points the curse and the gloomy fate to which our race was doomed; and thou filledst heaven and earth with joy and great gladness, making of us and of the sublime' hosts one glorious and spiritual company, in order to praise thee, the only good and mereiful one.
77 — πὶ — VI. — « The Lord hath reigned and hath clad himself in splendour »°. — He’ who alone hath immortality and dwelleth in light that cannot be approached underwent* death by the cross in the flesh "for our salvation°; and, having shone in the dark chambers of Sheol, he rose from among the dead. Therefore angels, resplendent in shining raiment, appear in glory by the side of the life-giving and saving tomb. And let us therefore by means of works of light offer ἡ yifts of praise to his Resurrection and to his great mercy.
78 — ıv — IV. — « Come see the works of the Lord »΄. — It was before the eyes of a woman which "look perversely and are prone to the lapses of
that cannot be approached, and whom no one among men hath seen » (verbal diff.). — 4. Corr. ‘ having undergone ’. — 5. Corr. ‘
on our behalf'. — 6. Gorr. ‘approach’. — 7. Ps. xLv1, 9.
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— e Corr. „oda. — f Corr. „3%. — g Corr. ri. — h Corr. ta. — i Corr. 00 59.
1.A koası. — 2. B sing. — 3. So other MSS, AB sing. — 4. In red.
transgression', which from love of pleasure looked at the tree in Paradise of the fruit of which the law of God forbade any man to δαὶ ἢ, that the angel who sat before the holy life-giving grave said, « Come and see the place in which the Lord was laid »®. Women‘ who brought about the fall for us, them he now commanded to go at once and announce the Resurrection of our Saviour. They who cast the bitter seeds of sorrow and a curse into the world, they first heard from him that had risen the word, « Rejoice ». Truly « old things have passed away »; and now behold! « feverything hath ° » in thee, Christ, « become new »°, praise to thee!
793 — v— IV. — « This came from the Lord and it is a marvel in our eyes». — ΤΠ gladness* of the Holy Sunday enlightens my mind greatly by the contemplation of its mysteries : for that is the eighth of days and at the
1. Corr. “ are perverse and easily deceived '.— 2. Corr. ‘ partieipate in ealing '. — 3. Matth. xxvıır, 5-10 « But the angel...... and go tell his disciples..... joy; and they ran to tell...., but go and tell my brethren..... see me’. » — 4. Corr. “ Those ᾿- — 5. Corr. “all things have ’. — 6. II Cor. v, 17, 18.
— 7. Ps. exvır, 23.—8. Corr. ‘ splendour ’.
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a Corr. a»s},lo (perh. to cover Jasy> also). — Ὁ Corr. us Jeiue Day. — Ὁ Corr. μι". — d Corr. os, B above the word ws, marg. os, above os. — e Corr. „oo. Marg. A (sie) „a0. 001 „WO .rD.) 05 Jam, „30, B pD. 00) Jjaso.0 „0. — f Mare. wa20.9 00) Jason „0. —
& Corr. as Ins. — ἢ Corr. pl us.
same time the first; on which I know that thou who in the beginning madest heaven and earth out of nothing, also, being the same, at the end οἱ times becamest incarnate, and sufferedst ' on the cross for our salvation, and through a God-befitting Resurrection "renewedst the creation of? our mortal race, and becamest the beginning’ of life to us and father of the world to come as one that is merciful. TAs thou* hast in truth made all things in wisdom, Lord, praise to thee!
80 — vı— IV. — « So longeth my soul after thee, ΟἹ God »°. — In like manner as the hart from thirst longeth and yearneth to come to° the fountain of water, so also my soul longeth for the rapid course of the days which brings to me the recurrence of Sunday : for, when from it I taste of the living water ofthe knowledge of the Cross and of the Resurrection, as of a fountain with pleasant waves, 1 "strip off’ like a garment the old age of sins, and clothe myself in the comely youth of the new works of justice or of righteousness,
l. Gorr. “ wast erucified ’ (perh. to cover ‘ on the cross’ also). — 2. Corr. ‘ ereatedst anew '. —
‘for ’. — 7. Corr. ‘ put away '.
[123] ON THE RESURRECTION OR HOLY SUNDAY. 123
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"ao yaya nalaı adı wdun dus m Ruudirn sum "od, usa > Jos Sal; Jun!
a Corr. wa». — b Corr. jtoitfp rl. — ce Marg. .uo., Jjasspe so. — d ÜOrr. Ks ass.
— eMarg. © os ol od) Auuy 09) „Pils GAMES yrsas Mus fr κί Pl wor Hro gr any ‚Lmzalı „Do χα Ju] aa ‚oda „ao. — f Corr. voor! (to follow).
and prepare myself for the life to come : to which grant me to attain, God who becamest incarnate without variation and wast erucified Ton our behalf' and madest thyself a leader and chief for us of a new and blessed life, as thou art mereciful.
81 — vır — IV. — « Unto the upright light hath shone in darkness »°. — Christ, even God, the Sun of righteousness Tafter suffering on our behalf in the flesh went down and shone in the chambers* of Sheol, and ‘ in this way rode upon the West, wliose name is the Lord, as the divine prophet David sings®. This Christ, who now behold! rides upon the East which is our" resurrection in that he was raised from among the dead, come, let us bless and worship : for he’ is the same who descended and who ascended above the heavens as God, that he might fill all things with his glory.
82 γι — II. — « Come let us praise the Lord »". — All ye that desire to attain to the good hope ofthe resurrection and of the new life, arise
4. Corr. ‘ also’. —5. Ps. xvru, 5 (not quoted). — 6. Β “ his’. — 7. Eph. ıv, 9,10 (verbal diff.). — 8. Ps.
hama Jan also. yusası Kam [Aoly iso." „Asazal
a Corr. soil, perh. to cover Sp> also. — b Corr. j;ao ἴων. — € Marg. jaa2> .joady Jo Ion DS (SIC) wornzel ac 233 Jose „war ig uomuazal Jo (510) Sms .jaas us no Hua Jop Ho wirolo pil> „oräs] (510) nar0 IN» uöHD „onaaab Joor njas „yono WS mas ja, wil ΒΡ DS yunzoas a] Jjoras DA. Jo „las Ao; Bo,as. — ἢ ÜOrr. zauaaso (to precede). — i Marg.
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and make haste "to go' at once to the life-giving grave. Run with” Mary and with the other women who accompany ἡ her in faith. Beholding* with the eyes of the mind the angels that have come down° from heaven, offer praise to God who has risen from the grave, asking him for forgiveness of your sins and his great mercy.
83 — ıx — II. — « To show thy grace in the morning and thy faith by night »°. — In’ the night our spirit eagerly arises early to greet thee,
Christ, God. Thou therefore be among us who early honour thy * Resurreetion in spiritual fashion with singing choirs and send up voices of thanksgiving to thy glory, and bestow upon all of us the gift of thy great merey.
δή — x — H. — « God hath reigned over the peoples »". — He'" that
1. Corr. © hasten ᾿ (perh. to cover ‘ at once ’ also). — 2. Luke xxıv, 1-5 « But on the first day..... dark, the women came..... one that is alive among the dead ?..... risen ’ » (verbal diff.). — 3. Gorr. “ are with’. — 4. Marg. Zvvonsare. — 5. Unintelligible corr. — 6. Ps. ΧΕΙ, 3. — 7. Is. xxvı, 9 IXX
« In the night my spirit riseth early to greet thee, O! God, because thy commandments are a light upon earth’. — 8. Gorr. “and praise thy '. — 9. Ps. xrvıt, 9. — 10. Id. cxLıv, 7, 8 (not quoted).
[125] ON THE RESURRECTION OR HOLY SUNDAY. 125
DIS aojoı Pd: Pl „aaa Sa Aus Sad Jo una Amos Kan us eNo Yoraso sa Nas ussıo
ulops olo LEI ar il al EI PIE. PH van won ol ro „go (510). — d Corr. „80.3. — ἢ Corr, „sy. — i Corr. por followed by 1, i. 6. yaaas. — j Corr. pojo. — k Corr.
releaseth them that are bound and lifteth up them that are bowed down, Christ, even God, hath risen in glory from the grave'. Come with me, all ye that are sick and afllicted with divers® diseases ol the soul and of the body, with Mary Magdalene° let us at this hour also run and in suprasensual fashion take hold of‘ his holy feet; and quickly in an ineflable way as in the twinkling of an eye we shall assuredly Treceive from him help’ for our pains and the riches of his great merey.
85 — xı— VII. — «It is good to give thanks unto the Lord »°. — Behold! therefore what’ is good or what is pleasant, except that on the commemoration of the holy Resurrection we also should rise with Christ, and not Tbe sunk in sleep upon our couch* but lift up our limbs in the all-hoiy '" nights
preceding Sunday, and rise early and thereby meditate on the resurrection and quickening of our bodies; so that on the last day, the day full of dread,
Ber and they ran to tell..... and worshipped them. Then..... shall they see me '. » — 4. Corr. “ touch ’. — 5. Corr. ‘ draw healing ’. — 6. Ps. xcıs, 2. — 7. Id. cxxxır, 1 (not quoted). — 8. Gorr,. ‘ slumber in
sleep in bed ’. — 9. Corr. ‘ the ᾿. — 10, Corr. ‘ sacred ’, ia 12 icli nZlnaa oa Imas ° us :Amuo, era
IP pin HP rgiaauy (per oLlpas jean | ποῦ „15207 oa ‚and „usjo] or |707 „omas [Nuss warıs Kom amanı Junssas |NuS6o usas το Nu jo base [5μ 35 „ag Haso |s,saa> jo co So „ano e Corr. μ1}. — dCorr. jaal (510) store. — e Corr. >. — f Corr. „joa “was (sic, with stop). — g Marg. pi> ay ab. asip Jain pol Boa od Paaıs (oM.oo H ui] 0 ΟΜ ‚mansabölz .]. 0
being freed from worldly and earthly thoughts, and being pure and light, they may with their souls Tbe caught' up into the height and so together meet Christ in the air (ἀήρ) ἡ, who "shall come* a second time from heaven? \Wherefore we beg thee, our Saviour, strengthen and confirm us for this blessed God-befitting hope and "grant us that we may all be admitted το it, according to the abundance of thy great mercy.
AGAIN HYMNS SUNG BEFORE THE READING OF THE GOoSPEL
ON THE SAME NIGHT PRECEDING SUNDAY.
S6 — ı — H.— « Come hearken and I will tell all of you the works of God »". — Ye that have honoured the resplendent and holy night of the Resurreetion by standing through it all“ and enduring hardship, while keeping
1. Corr. “ being lifted ’. — 2. I Th. ıv, 13-17. — 3. Corr, ‘ comes ᾿. — 4. Corr. ‘ admit to inherit ἡ. 5. Ps. Lxv1, 16. — 6. Corr, ‘ all the watch ’.
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a Corr. jus gel. — b Corr. jhsax.oo. — ὁ Corr. um (we require a, »). — ἃ Corr. pl — 6 Corr. ‚ul wii (sic, with stop). — f Corr. ; ko; (to precede). — g Marg. ..wasi}zos Iasası Jialıto „Jusas 0 aba [anäno „oo Jans H Jiormo „aus fasan odj Kol ih» [Nein τ audio »}oEa&30 „MAsaso Lasg human yaso [55 Hau yas Fuss [ll > Jasly opad omas 00 „Kal. — h Corr.
1. A ass. _ 9, A pl. —3. A sing. -— 4. A "5:
watch and with your minds also awake', and being sons of light and sons of day, of the great and splendid day, come listen and hearken to the voice of the "trump of the Gospel” proclaiming and erying the earnest of life and the hope of our quickening and resurrection from among the dead, which is Christ our frue life and our quickening and our? resurrection : whom also /et us bless and worship‘ and let us give thanks to him with his’ Father and his Holy Spirit, and say ® to him, « Praise to thee! »
87 — ıı — VI — «It is good to give thanks unto the Lord »°. — In the light-elad and life-giving night of the holy Sunday ofthe Resurreetion I am Tawoken from sleep trembling with terror” and I come to the voice of the Gospel* that is full of dread; and I consider in my mind that "such an’ hour nearly resembles and bears the pattern of that dread hour.of the end, in which
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Christ is to be revealed from heaven and will come above
1. I Th. v, #8 (verbal diff.). — 2. Corr. ‘Gospel-trump '. — 3. Corr. ὁ the '. — 4. Corr. ° worshipping '. — 5. Corr. ‘ let us say ’. — 6. Ps. xcıı, 2. — 7. Corr. ‘ disturbed from the bed of sleep, being seized also with trembling '. — 8. Mark ΧΠῚ, 24-26. « And in those..... the moon shall not show her lieht....., glory. » Reff, also to Matth. xxıv, 29, 30, Luke xxr, 25-27. — 9, Corr. “this ’”, — 10. Gorr.
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power and !God-befitting glory, and then the ' dead?, hearing a voice eryiny like a clarion or the last trump, shall be quickened and shall come forth from their graves, they that have "good deeds’ to the resurrection of new life, and they that have done evil things to the resurrection of judgment and punishment. Truly I pray thee, God, who art the blessed hope that is free from falsehood, admit me to the kingdom of heaven which thou promisedst according to thy great mercy.
AGAIN OTHER HYMNS SUNG ON THE SAME NIGHT PRECEDING SUNDAY
AFTER THE READING OF THE GOoSPEL.
85 — ı — IL — «The Lord hath done great things for us and we have been in joy » ‘. — Our ears have been filled with joy; we have received a divine change; Tand our minds have been enlightened° by the splendour that flashes
1. Gorr. ‘ great glory, and those’. — 2. John v, 25-29 (verbal diff.). — 3, Corr, “ done good things '.
[129] AFTER THE READING OF THE GOSPEL. 129 ud aon mim .Jjaas Aus IaN us, Phjls io wiasın ala wol uno „aan "Kuss os "bass ol Jo wood] Da LIE an el rd] dar Jos] fs Hoi, ge 5 ana wahl ran ra DAN rZısa hrin "ls asj00 „am ‚ooas Lass las Jalo
a Corr. > geil. — b Marg. ναὶ ya „0 „Lasse (SIC) Jas 109, paxs ur (510) yuhike „ua Sax? 9rgD Joy yanoı Ja] "uoadgsl DO zo zoozle stur Fans gl bis ILno Jans. — c Marg. „larasapa20 Jr is Ss Jo8y omger [Ἢ τὰς dor So „Ines, — d Corr. pit Ss. — e Corr. So. —
1. A pl. — 2. A sing. — 3. A „IP.
from the angels' that sit by the tomb. From the grave itself we have drawn incorruptibility; from the closed gates of Sheol resurrection and life. Who is he that will not mortify* his? limbs that are upon the earth? who is there that will not praise him that in all things is God, him that is exalted‘, him that is earthly’ in the flesh, and again re-ascended and took his lace Tin the heights'? \Whom let us all beg*® and entreat to be with us in his
mercy until” the end of the world.
89 — τὖὐ — VII. — « Clap hands all ye peoples »". — O the riches of the words! Ο the height of the God-befitting sentiments! These are Tin truth evangelical’, which quicken us'’ who are dead in works of sin and raise us with Christ, and in a fashion make Tus fly and float in the air in our mind '',
1. John xx, 11, 12 (verbal diff.). — 2. Col. πι, 5, 6 « Mortify therefore..... fornication and filthiness of passions..... disobedience. » — 3. Corr. * the’. — 4. Corr. “ above ᾿:.—- 5. Corr. ‘ below '. — 6. Gorr. “ ask’. — 7. Malth. xxvırm, 20 « And lo! Iam with you until {he end of the world. » — 8. Ps. xrvır, 2. — 9. Corr. © verily and truly evangelical (words) ᾿. — 10. Eph. 1, 22 — τι, 2. — 11. Corr.
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1. B adds »>ia. — 2. A |Nsu>.
and ascend with them to heaven abcre,; and they ery in our deaf and dead ears' with a voice louder than that of a trump, saying, « Mind things above, and not things on the earth. Seek* and meditate upon things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of the Father; in order that, when he himself who hatlı come and !is to’ come is again revealed at his second coming, ye also may be revealed with him in glory », according to the abundance
of his great mercy.
Acaın HYMNS SUNGS AT THE ENTRY INTO THE BAPTISTERY
AT DAWN ON SUNDAY.
90 — ı — III. — « Bring to the Lord glory and honour ν΄. — All ye who have been enlightened in your minds by the songs of the Resurrection, and hold Christ himself in the thoughts of your’ hearts, « who were not born of
1. Gorr. “ hearing ᾿. — 2. Col. ΠΙ, 1-3 (verbal difl.). — 3. Corr. ‘ who shall again’. — 4. Ps. xxıx,
[131] AT THE ENTRY INTO THE BAPTISTERY. 131 ae) AHaumumS am an τῷ dunandma IA-s]; win as na ala hand ind ao asa ia Azon Wlan Do (ac) Na; DAo
a Corr. kudop. — b Corr. war 1. — ὁ Corr. ına« Js (to follow?). — ἃ Marg. bo Ir u Sal Ip ‚ugaaspah Jisias wi} Lido oo .Haroı 0 Hoo „Io no Kal lo „Lusal m boass Jo [il Hauses „dor yuls Is Ko „Igor (510) yulpsaa Ko ΟἹ; „Ile „Del .cusäl adoaı — e Corr. 2. — f Corr. rast.
1. A in marg. in another hand, — 2. A IMuspoo. — 3. A =. — 4. A IDsyoly.
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God »', come let us set forth and go to the mysterious eleansing fountain of Jordan, and in faith worship the new spiritual mother, who from her womb gave birth to the holy people of the Christians; and, marvelling at the fruitfulness of the God-bearer, let us ery with a voice of wonder with the great among prophets Isaiah and say, « Who hath heard such a thing? or who hath seen it so? for? the earth hath travailed in one day, and hath borne a people’, because Zion hath travailed and hath borne her children. *‘ But it is I who have given such‘ hope and expectation ’, saith the Lord God »°, who is the hope of our confidence, who alone is mereiful.
91 — 1 — IV. — « All ye bondmen of God » °. — Come speedily, ye peoples, let us go to the spiritual Jordan or the temple of the baptistery 'in order to honour the God-befitting mystery of the holy Resurreetion, and let us all in it
1. John 1, 11-14. — 2. Corr. © if’. — 3. Corr. “ people in one hour’. — 4. Corr. “ this ’. — 5. Is. LXVI, 6-10 « A voice of confusion..... her pangs come, she shall escape and bear a male child. Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? that the earth travaileth and beareth in one
day..... because Zion hath travailed and hath borne her children..... saith the Lord » (verbal diff.). —
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worship the life-giving death of God who became incarnate and suffered on our
behalf in the flesh; which also caused a fountain of life and of resurrection to spring forth for us. For all of us who have been admitted to be baptized in Christ have been baptized in his death', having "been planted together with him in? the likeness of his death and of his Resurrection, as the God-inspired Paul bears witness. And accordingly let us with faith say to him who through’ water and the Spirit and blood renewed afresh our race which had grown old in sin and made and rendered us the children of the flesh children of light,
« Praise to thee! »
ÄGAIN HYMNS ON PERSONS BAPTIZED.
92 — ı— Il. — « Sing to the Lord a new song » '.— Ye that by enlightening 1. Rom, vr, 3-9 (cited as I Cor.) « Or know ye not... no more, and sin hath no power in him » (verbal diff.). — 2. Corr. ‘ shared with him in being planted into ’. — 3, I John v, 6, 8 (verbal diff.). —
[133] ON PERSONS BAPTIZED. 133 wanna nm wurd JorsoaisD (0, Kisams ama .oN.ocı „oNarol| NN IA > ‚dunlusr’ \alusik, wdhuma Sprus] Kay re yo ohanil] hrhaaa Iedago I], N —o
„Saso Wo. — b Corr. posass. — c Corr. al. — ἃ Corr. (l. ad) ur us. — e Corr.
„par aaun]| arms Ladjars θ᾽ aufs oluoy „Muss.
baptism have been made new, by deeds themselves keep "such a' reputation unto the end. Do not wantonly betake yourselves back again to the old age of sins; do not in any wise follow after deeds of darkness. You have riyhtly eonfessed one” Lord and one faith : Trenounce the many doctrines® of error that are falsified against the truth. Lo! you have been armed with the mighty arms of the Spirit : fight and struggle; and do not through Tsin that you serve‘ make miserable treaties with your' foes. By calling the’ holy Father in heaven “our Father ’ fix the hidden eyes of your' mind constantly on heaven. You have been hallowed by the divine laver; you have been removed from all filth and pollution and stain. Having once been buried and ‚Fisen together ® with Christ who is God, who once suflfered and rose, think not at all of a second baptism. Keep the treasure of immortality that has
% Corr. ‘ the fact of sinning ’. — 5. Corr. “ upon the ', — 6. Col. τι, 11-13 (verbal difl.).
Jan SsAoo Mais Jlaxı 0 "u Hal Lil si ar zn J an "any u ndhiul aan 7 rorio oA lan oc. ea
Jyaas bu 408, Ms ‚is Passo „Pia, Jill Pay! vo .|Araas io IHapa> a6 asilily SA „Lola
1. sin ink. — 2. A 8535. — 3, A |Ntsoly B Iotsoly. — 4. A sing.
been bestowed upon you with all carefulness, Toflering praise to the g00d Giver of! this according to the riches of his great merey.
93 — ıı — II. — « Blessed are they that are without spot in the way »°. — Ye that have been admitted to holy baptism have already entered upon and begun the way of righteousness, wherein® no lion or any evil, and therefore unclean, beast sets foot or walks, but only you who have been saved and gathered together by the Lord God. In it therefore continue to walk unto the end, ollering‘ praise to his great mercy.
94 — πι- — IV. — « Because the Lord hath done marvellous things »’. — \When I look at the children of the laver of regeneration, I turn the glances 'of my" eyes downward : for an eternal spiritual savour has alighted and sat Τ᾿ upon their head, and splendour such as befits the holy hosts on high : which
1. Corr. “ singing praise to him who gives ’. — 2. Ps. exvım, 1. — 3. Is. xxxv, 9 (not quoted). — 4. Gorr. * singing ’. —5. Ps. xevım, 1 zxx. — 6. Corr. ‘ with the ’. — 7. Is. xxxv, 3-10 (verbal diff.).-
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las] Jans | omas (al oo vn so as
a B marg. ysal oe. — b Marg. .pip aus ‚ao „Kaas μα! Line Hol og} Jroas> Joouo .waooy
eo Jos. — ἃ Corr. 2.1. — e Corr. 1ojaaa (ἢ. 6. JLafs Loans).
if they keep, they shall dwell in eiernal habitations, whence pain and sorrow and sighing have fled away as it is written‘, praising Christ for his great
95 — ıv — VII. — «Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad » °
A great wonder! they’ who once were darkness have become light upon ' them who were deprived of mercy mercy has now come. They who were destitute of God are now made a dwelling-place of the Spirit : with whom let us praise God the only good and mereiful one.
96. — v — VI. — « Tell forth his salvation from day to day ν΄. — Ye that have been clad in the garment of salvation and the raiment of spiritual gladness by holy baptism, and have been adorned like" a bride with the deeoration and adornment of the Holy Spirit, keep the suprasensual beauty of comeliness’ that ye have received, and the Lord will cause righteousness"
22-26 « But, if..... and her that had not been loved belovel. For it shall be..... sons of the living God. » — 5. Ps. xavı, 2. — 6. Corr. “ as’. — 7. Co:r. representing einssrziaz. — 8. Is. ıxı, 10, 11.
τ Sum am [usa] „us . Jans m or "ii JNoiN halı vor „andhal Sjoan 2.5] 0 any) Jar 2 als ra Jo). Duas J vasilo ‚Nana "sol, >] ro) a ‚alriar
:Naıro5 Nass Sala "Jar; Jlauzamı Do JlaugaD Ana
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to sprout forth in you in a manner to be desired like! a bud or lower which springs from the earth, according to his great merey.
97 — vi— IV. — « Who speaketh peace with his people and with his righteous ones »°. — Christ who° dwelleth and walketh in them that have been enlightened through baptism, inasmuch as he knew that his‘ divine calling is higher? than repentance, through Isaiah who is entrusted with the mysteries and is great among prophets proclaimed ® beforehand sayingy 1o them as to Jerusalem, « Thou shalt not again” be called Torsaken’, and thıy land shall no longer be called ‘desolate’; but thou shalt be called my will’® and thy land 'married’ or “inhabited’® ». But Tlet us because of these things praise '" the good and mereiful Lord.
98 — vır — III. — « The queen stood at thy right hand »''. — The holy church, Thaving understood and seen the richness and fruitfulness of her
1. Corr. “ as’. — 2. Ps. Lxxxv, 9. — 3. Corr. “ since he ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ the ’. — 5. Unintelligible corr.
— 6. Corr. * eried ’. — 7. Corr. ‘ no longer ’. — 8. Is. rxır, 1-4 (verbal diff.). — 9. Corr. * inhabitable >. — 10. Gorr. ‘ on account of which things let us praise him- who alone is’. — 11. Ps. xLıv, 10 zıX.
[137] ON PERSONS BAPTIZED. 137 „> Nasa; am τι as; Sso :kunaso as sd Joc AU] J τ “Hal Jux» aD Il sas a. ".ctep2y no
a Corr. pyoass IL,.eo (prob. to cover the next 2 words also). — b Marg. (sie) „st .usal
ὁ Corr. zu Las (sic). This must cover woran» also. — ἃ Corr. was „2. — e Marg.
parturition and of her spiritual progeny, and having considered and remembered' her earlier unfruitfulness when Christ was not her husband, and marvelling in astonishment at the boundless greatness of the gilt, eries, « Who hath borne these children for me, while 1 am childless and a widow? »*. Wherefore let us Tpractise modes of life’ worthy of such a birth Tand oller praise to ἡ his great merey toward us.
99 — γπι — I — « Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord »’. — If there is joy in heaven even for one sinner® who repents of his iniquity, as the unerring words of the Lord bear witness, how can not the heaven only but the whole earth also now avoid being yet more full of” joy, the angels dancing and singing praise in spiritual companies and bands, over the salvation of those who have been baptized and enlightened and have put ol!* the old man, and with
1. Corr. “ comprehending the goodly progeny of the mysterious parturition and renewing in her me-
mory ᾿. — 2. Is. xLıx, 18-21 * Lift up..... shall flee. Again they shall say..... where were these? ᾿ — 3. Corr. “ behave in a manner ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ praising ’”. —5. Ps. xxxum, 1 zxx. — 6. Luke xv,7 «I Say... joy before the angels of God over one sinner Lhat repenteth. » — 7. Corr. ‘ ofall'.. — ὃ. Col.
„mul τσ endala rd: Jura kin lad; „U! molaso
us raising anew song Οἱ praise to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit with loud voices, and in wonder sayıng « Halleluyah! »?
100 — ıx — VII. — « Be brave and let your heart be strengthened »'. — Ye who through the laver of grace appear like lights in the world, be streng-
thened ? with might from above through the Holy Spirit, and turn away your face from the old man which is corrupted by the pleasure” of lusts of error. For so by "making profession * in actual deeds you would hold out the word’ of life to unbelievers, and you will be known to be pressing towards the true life that is to come and is promised to believers,; and you will be admitted to reign with Christ according to the riches of his great merey.
This hymn is not the composition of Mar Severus, but is thought to be the work of John son of Aphthonia, or of Mar Rabbula bishop of Edessa‘.
— 4. Gorr. * saying ’. — 5. Philipp. τι, 15, 16 « That ye may be..... in the world, holding the word of life. » — 6. From » comparison with hymn 62 I take this to refer to the following rather than to the preceding, but it is not guite elear. As the correetions and painted letters show both to be translations, it is not easy lo see how either could be ascribed to Rabbula, who wrote in Syriac.
[139] ON PERSONS BAPTIZED. 139
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When they strip off their garments.
101 — x — VII — « Come hearken and I will tell you all the works of God »'. — Though you are stripping off the raiment that is outside you, yet put not off from you the hidden raiment within, ye who have been baptized ’; in any wise prevail against you. You know what manner of words you have heard; you know what a lamb you have fenjoyed. Beware οἵ ὁ the enemy lest he strip and expose you as he did Adam, and make you aliens to the blessings of the kingdom, as he made him an alien to the life and the blessings in? Paradise. WVherefore pray with us and ery to Christ, « Confirm and keep the souls of us all by the Holy Spirit. »
The hymns on baptism are ended.
1.Ps. ıxvı, 16. — 2. Gal. π|, 26, 27. — 3. Corr. “winter ’. — 4. Corr. * partieipated in. Look to’. —
»!uAwaa.Nulo As 0 Na
„N on sm ΝΣ aD Il Sy KA Joule J "sorasls
Hyuns ar mip-PENTECOST.
102 — ı — V. — « In the midst of the ehurch will I praise thee » '. — \When* the festival was at its midst, the mediator of God and men, Jesus who is God, when standing at that time in the midst of the Jews, showed plainly that he is God of God’ by nature, even after he had emptied himself and by dispensation become truly ὁ man; and as a partner and sharer of the [rom him », and he immediately added further asa mere man and said, « for he also sent me». Therefore let us praise him who through the mediation of his mereilulness has joined us to his Godhead ’, according to the riches of his great mercy.
tion and in trutliı become ᾿. —- 5. Corr. ‘ the ’. — 6. Corr. * the same ᾿, — 7. Corr. * essence ᾿,
[141] ON THE ASCENSION. 141
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a Marg. „_oesg; nu uSj0 Auso pas Wil. ug Faso wo. — b Corr. „ui. — ὁ Marg. & ‚Bil DS „Nur Jaami] zulo της, DS Fe gel kam. .xan... — d Corr. njasias p. — e Corr. po.
103 — ı — IV. — « Be thou exalted, Lord, in thy might » '. — Thou, God, who bowedst?the heavens and eamest down like® rain upon a fleece, and becamest incarnate "without variation® of the Holv Spirit and of the Godbearer the Virgin Mary, and didst fulfil the dispensation in the flesh without tumult, didst ascend ® in glory to heaven with a shout of God-befitting praise and with the voice of a trumpet, being recognised by the bodiless hosts of heavenly beings to be King” of Glory, though° thou madest no addition at all ‚to the Trinity, and’ didst remain God, and, being the same, becamest man for our sake, who didst raise and set us together '° with thee in glory in heaven, praise to thee!
fashion '. — 6. Id. xıvıı, 6 (cited as xwvi). — 7. Id. xxıv, 9, 10 zxx « Lift up the gates, rulers among
you : be ye lifted up, eternal gates : the King of Glory shall come in. ‘ Who is this King of Glory? ἢ The Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory. » — 8. Corr, ‘ and’. — 9. Corr. ‘ who’, — 10. Eph. τι, 4-6,
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— c Corr. Itausoonse. — ἃ Corr. » (prob. for ©, but written over ı). — e Marg. .kmaäl
‚ana20 warıs „da Loos Olamasma0, — f Corr. NSJN> uam al 2» g Marge. A ‚a0.I (sie) 0% 8
104 — ır — III. — « God hath gone up with praise and the Lord with the voice of a trump »'. — The Word who is before the ages, the only one, the wisdom and power οἱ God°, as he was in an incomprehensible manner hypostatically® united to flesh possessing an intelligent soul, when of his own will he came down to earth, and yet did not leave heaven, but filled all things, so also alter he had risen from among the dead went up and was ewalted in the body to heaven, though he had never left or abandoned the throne of glory; in order that, having raised with him all of us who have been saved by grace like a second Adam, he might also make us to sit with him in heaven in great God-befitting glory, according to the abundant and incomprehensible riches ® of his grace toward us. With him therefore Tas he goes up let us all go up to heaven in mind ®, and with David the prophet let us ery and say, « God hath gone up with praise” and a procession of victory, the Lord with the voice of a
1. Ps. xuv11, 6. — 2. I Cor. 1, 23-25 « But we..... Jews and to the heathen foolishness; but Lo
them that are called, Jews and heathen, Christ..... (han men. » — 3. Corr. “in hypostasis ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ while he ’. — 5. Eph. π, 4-7. — 6. Corr. ‘ going up together in minds '. — 7. Corr. ‘ a shout’.
[143] ON THE ASCENSION. 143
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ab marg. .2. (Sic) oo [go]. — Ὁ Marg. Bil .HBolg Kaas Kasal zus jaollis yore Holy „ulo „0 Dlo 0% Pi Joa panıs Ar pas basäyy LI, „ua uopjas "bass io] „Na Pl abo IT JUN SL JLader [DAS Panızy IP oiouah .foads soon ur Jon Laie arhr Jill ad,
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1. A corr. from DM B a2’. — 2, A Ip γε (in 2 lines).
trump »'; and, being Joined to the sublime* hosts and having been exalted with him that is exalted and cannot be approached, let us make answer to the more sublime hosts and say, « Lift up the gates, rulers among you; and be opened and lified up, eternal gates, and the great King of all the ages in glory shall come in, the Lord of all hosts » ἧ.
The Word of God, who shone on us, who were aforetime sitting in darkness and in the shadows of death’, through his saving coming in the flesh, and raised us with him, who were dead, through his® glorious Resurrection from the dead, hath made us to ascend”’ together with him to heaven through his® divine Ascension, and to sit with him in ylory before his Father. Let us mind things that are above°; let us seek things that are above; let us forget
1. Ps. xLvır, 6 (eited as xLvi), xxIv, 7-10, Is. xxıv, 23 (?) (none quoted). — 2. Corr. ‘* bodiless ᾿. — might be fulfilled..... the prophet who says ‘ The land..... that sit in the region of the shadows..... shone upon them ’ » (verbal -diff.), Luke τ, 79. — 6. Corr. ‘ the ᾿. — 7. Eph. ı1, 6 (not quoted). — duluan I: Dr Hau ol; IJLD loc Lin un har JlSa >) > ‚Ja re una BI ol ya Hl °, entadre sol] aa "aıson dam las ὃ dor Basyy INzaasl od „ala, Lie .Lapas LI. am Li LAD οἱ Luran Liso yas In (uno oh ‚Nrasal; AN zoo] og ‚mnaara Jlehz.
a Corr. aut nsasi,. — b Corr. jnauogase. — c Corr. “ao. — d Corr. οὐλ. — e Marg. JLora>D 0091 Yrasaso ook ga JLaor INS} use jo „ulm „ooluls. Ja pda rel! gan,
deeds that are of the earth and earthly, praising the riches of his God-befitting mereifulness ' toward us, and his merey that cannot be measured.
106 — ıv — IV. — « Thou art from everlasting »”. — Though the only Son of God, the Word, united to himself hypostatically the flesh of our weakness, possessing a rational and intelligent soul, without sin and pollution without being changed (for this the purpose of healing us the feeble ones affected by the disease of sin required), yet still?, as being mighty and omnipotent, he in it overcame and brought to naught the devil who* has the power of death’, and, after® he had risen from the dead, he ascended in glory to heaven; "so that the hosts of the heavenly ones also sing” to him the song of vietory‘. Some asked, « Who is this King of Glory? » and others answering ery to them, « The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord the mightyin war. The Lord and Maker of all hosts; he is the King of Glory »°. Him let us also all together
who ’. — 5. Heb. π, 14, 15 (verbal diff.). — 6. Corr. ‘ when ’ (2). — 7. Corr. ‘ in order Lhat..... alsa
[145] ON THE ASCENSION. In
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a Corr. ua » (written Over ja,o also). — b Corr. ooer. — ὁ Corr. assjo. — d Corr.
„Do Hay Kasaa ‚cos no. — ἢ Corr. rar uch.
1. A Orwelo- — 2,8 in ink.
praise ' with the Father and with the Holy Spirit and say, « Bel art thou, holy art thouz holy art thou, Lord ».
107 — v — VII. — « Because the Lord is high and terrible »’. — The hosts of heaven "shook with amazement, and trembling seized’ the lines and
ranks of the bodiless armies of angels, when they saw that their Creator and Maker, Christ, the Word of God and the Father, who became by dispensation the second Adam‘, had in the body been lifted® into the heights and ewalted and had passed through al! the heavens, and in him with him® lifted us all to the ewalted heights and made us sit with him in glory and with his” heavenly Father, us the strangers*, the far-removed and rejected’, the enemies, who are not in any way worthy even ol earth. Therefore together with the prophet
1A, 15 « Since we have therefore a high-priest, Jesus Christ..... our infirmity » (verbal diff.). — 5. Eph. τ, 20, 21 (not quoted). — 6. Id. ır, 6 (not quoled). — 7. Corr., the ’.“— 8. Eph. π, 12 « And ye were..... and strangers to {he ecovenant of the promises..... by the blood of Christ », ıv, 8-10 « Therefore it is said * Thou didst ascend to the height and lead captive a captivity ’. But that he ascended..... that he might fill all ihings » (verbal diff.). — 9. Corr. ‘ banished ',
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a Corr. po ia.aas. — b B marg. ... Ijasope o. — € Marg. \oNoo „Aue; (as | .Lmäls „una waaıs Jusass ax „alolo .oras „aunlo, — d Corr. Has;zoı. — Ὁ Marg. S> 09 | .Lyas
1. \ IL5asoply. — 2. A om. — 3. B adds |86s,8. — 4, AB ode: — 5. A um. — 6. A |Norbr:
David and with the immaterial company above, before the yreat and new wonder and miracle of our salvation, let us all together' sing and say « Sing” 10 the Lord a new song of praise, because he hatlı done wonders
toward us, the merciful one ».
The hymns on the Ascension of our Lord are ended.
AGAIN HYMNS ON PENTECOST. The first about the genuflexcion on the same Pentecost.
108 — ı — VII. — «My glory and the lifter up of my head » '. — Christ, even God, by sullering a voluntary passion on our behalf in the flesh and rising in glory from among the dead quickened and raised' us also with him who were /os’ and dead in sin; and he brought to naught and dissolved® the
[147] ON PENTECOST. 147
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power of the tyranny of the devil and of the demons. Therefore down to Ihe day of Pentecost we do not Tbend the knee' to the earth when we pray; and against our enemies "we sing? and say with the divine Psalmist and prophet David, « They have been entangled and have fallen; but we have risen, and been set upright ν᾿. But, when the Holy Spirit has shone and been revealed to us in God-befitting fashion, we bow the knee "because we cannot endure‘ the sight of him, and we signify that it is through the Spirit, the Paraclete, that we have learned the perfect worship in the Holy Trinity. « For God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship before him in spirit and in truth »°.
109 — 1 — II. — « God is known in Judah »°. — Thou wast made known aforetime through” the law and the prophets, ΟἹ God of all and Father, and by their means thou didst announce and show forth thy only Son and Word and the Holy Spirit, but not clearly, because they "were not yet capable of
1. Corr. ‘ incline ourselves’. — 2. Corr. ‘ singing also ’. — 3. Ps. xx, 9 zxx, — 4, Corr. ‘ not bearoa dal ya Ja, - JaDzas Jr „al a,3llo „as)]| Jo JA
a Corr. are po. — b Corr. μὲς: — € Corr. joos. — d Corr. os; (to precede). — e Corr. καὶ (Sie) pas. — [ Marg. Sau, ‚0085 0001 ort] „fiwanıtuls; Joa, Jos; Haase ‚ao „amums;s ne ‚use .sadiso Lo holz "upDoL| or} od) odur Hass „u Vo uussas „ur Jaslo (sic) u, (Sic) orcl Nosls «ϑίο wipas »|SIC) Haas Kys;|a>0] Mojo mfua> „ooanso zoo „Jiojou Aypas ujsası Jarao ala]asaa poste Kapro Fiange Kür .[SIC) Kaas; Se oil, use ujaaı Jarzor us (SIC) wasadı. —
understanding when the one Godhead of the Trinity' was revealed. But, when the Word and God became incarnate and became man on our behalf without variation, he showed himself equal to thee, Father, through the wonderful works which he did; and, Falter he has’ ascended to heaven, he shows* plainly to-day, as to men who have become perfect, the Godhead of the Spirit, the Paraclete, which in the shape of tongues Tof fire‘ rested and abode upon the holy apostles°, in order that they might burn and destroy the thorns, which the transgression of our father Adam planted aforetime; they
1. Corr. ‘ did not yet understand the Godhead of the Trinity when it '. — 2. Gorr. ‘ having ', — 3, Corr. * reveals ᾿. —4. Corr. * fiery’. —5. Acts. π| 1-11 « And, when the day of Pentecost was being {ulfilled, they were all gathered together, and lo! suddenly from heaven a voice as ol the blowing of a strong wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitling. And (here appeared to them eloven tongues like fire, and they sat upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them to speak. And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from all peoples of those under heaven. But, when the voice happened, all the people gathered together and were confounded, because each of them heard them speaking in their own speech. They were all amazed and wondered saying, ‘ Lo! are not all that speak Galileans? and how do we hear each his own speech wherein we were born, Parlhians and Medes and Elamites, and they that dwell in Mesopolamia, and in Judaea and in Gappadoeia, in Pontus and in Asia, [and in] Phrygia and in Pamphylia, in Egypt and also in the regions of Libya that is near Cyrene and they that have come from Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear etc’. »
[149] ON PENTECOST. 149 Joa +35! Joor syaa “wann ..-9 rin (saio INSN!S : JUN DI;
a B marg. aa ne. — b Corr. pas». — ὁ Corr. purs. — ἃ Corr. po, — e Corr. 1. A om. — 2. A Dojmml-
who also taught us to praise the one God in three holy hypostases : whom also worshipping we say, « Praise to thee! ».
110 — ıı — VI. — « The unknown and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made known to me »'. — Moses in one place signifying though in stases said, « Listen and hear, Israel : the Lord thy God is one Lord »*; but those who then heard were not ecapable of understanding the great and hidden mystery ofthetheology. Therefore, when the only Word who is in the bosom ofthe Father became incarnate, he declared to us and explained to us clearlıy, as far as was’ possible, the inexplicable character of his Godhead : and the’ Spirit also, the Paraclete, by resting in his grace on the holy apostles in tongues Tof fire’ showed that he is God over all, and the Spirit of truth, who proceeds everlastingly from God the Father. \Wherefore let us ery to him in entreaty, « Examine and purify, ΟἹ God, our mind and tongue, in order that we may say, Tas befits the Godhead°, ‘ Praise to the Father and to
1. Ps. τι, 6 zxx. — 2. Deut. vı, 4 zXX (eited as Ex.). — 3. Corr. * is . — 4. Corr. * the Holy '. — 5. Corr. * fiery '. — ὃ. Corr. * in God-befitting fashion '.
sans L| Solo "un Nam ἈΠ Isoocl vorhin] na >Doll bl sau un N] Ss am vurfo ‚Joa Kl, solo -. 5} Fr gar glas rs KA 000 am dor nZ,eoalrt (ins a Corr. age: — b.Corr. jasa-s, € Corr. har San ps». —d.Corr. an our
the Son and to the Holy Spirit!', and that we may know that thou art one God without division in three hypostases ».
111. — ıın — I. — « Because great is the glory of the Lord »'. — Who in my mind on the Father, and I am filled with light, and I consider myself to have everything. I go on to ponder upon the Son, nor am I thereby straitened in mind; but I am again enlightened with another light that is full and of equal honour. But, when further in addition to these I receive in myself "thoughts concerning ἢ the Holy Spirit also, I find in three perfect and unconfused hypostases one light of the Godhead. And the "indivisible union‘ of this is shown by the miracle also that was wrought, which
gathered the divided tongues into one, and made the divine apostles to use
them all as if they were one : by whose Tprayers we beg’, my Lord, bestow upon us also the union and concord of the Holy Spirit, and the bond of right faith ; and keep us and be mereiful to us, according to the abundance of thy great mercy.
1. Ps. cxxxvin, 5 ZXX. — 2. Corr. “ great’. — 3. Corr. “ coasideralion of’. —ı. Corr. " indivisibi-
lity. — 5. Corr. ‘ enlreaty we entreat ’.
[151] ON PENTECOST. 151
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Θὲ 5} IkaL> Jaiso Iawol> Jaiaı Jo zoroN.]; DI sand anar“
112 — ıv — I. — « God hath sent forth his grace and his truth »'. — After the Ascension of the great God and” Saviour of all, Jesus Christ, in the flesh from earth to heaven, in accordance with the God-befitting promise of his’ words that cannot lie, his‘ Holy Spirit rested and abode upon the holy apostles in tongues of fire’; who. by speaking in the tongues of all peoples and proclaiming the teaching concerning the kingdom of heaven signified that he who aforetime divided the speech of men which was one into many tongues has now joined the tongues of all together into one faith which teaches men to believe equally in the Father and in the Son and in the Holy Spirit, in three unconfused and perfect hypostases, one Godhead; which also let us worship and praise, "eonfessing his® great and ineffable merey.
113 — v — IV. — « The Lord hath shown bis salvation and before the nations hath revealed hisrighteousness » .— He who once spake though the holy prophets, the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, has in everything signified and shown
1, 3-6 (not quoted). — 6. Corr. “ praising its’. — 7. Ps. xcvı, 2.
yandım Lin 535] "Dem ..Laly Jaope 0; yol jobeb !Latı EN IT. Sp, INa..o „NDS Jasn jasa.a Jo Maul οἱ „Nas INS ol ua ER gr a— a „io
‚his joa) κοῦ is „Joy Ki 00 .(sie) L009 „po „Loy |» P 2] uoppBs0 „Joy Op) Wa. —
1. A ins. om across line; so 18,819 14,713: 14,514 om- — 2A om. — - 3. ἃ No.
and to the Son. Aforetime through the books Fof the law and in the prophecies of the prophets' he taught saying as in the person of the Father, « These things saith the Lord »*; but afterwards through the voices of the Gospel, « In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God »°; and through the preaching of the divine apostles he cried, « These things saith the Holy Spirit »' : who also in the shape oftongues of fire rested and abode upon them; in order that on every side the equality and kingship and invariability in all things of the Holy Trinity might be made known, and that we might praise the ineffable merey which has been revealed and has taught us the knowledge of God.
[14 — vr — V. — « Zion heard and rejoiced »°. — When the divine
1. Gorr. * legal and prophetie ’. — 2. Marg. ‘ in the Old Testament ’. — 3. John ı, 1-4 (verbal diff.). — 4. Acts ΧΠῚ, 2 « But, while those were serving the Lord and praying, the Holy Spirit said, ‘ Separate me therefore Barnabas (and Saul) for the work (to) which I have called them ἡ». xvr, 7 « They tried to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them », xxı, 10, 11 « And, while they remained with them many days, a certain man came down from Judaea, a prophet named Agabus; and, having come to us and taken hold of Paul's girdle, binding his own feet and hands he said, ‘ These things saith the Holy Spirit, « The man whose this girdle is the Jews in Jerusalem shall thus
[158] ON PENTECOST. 153 oa .. [1] 009 rad. SH dhaan Jono :L > Jaa,.Ans als
aa 000 "ep2ol Jojar wär ua} J 250 -.\ moin apndıra
a B marg. (so; 1a) u; το. — b Marg. a8 pr] aast2oo ‚oa ur 0001 „role .arnms;ör
apostles were carrying the gospel-teaching in the newness' of the spirit as Paul said and not in the oldness of the letter, and were giving a sign that this was so in the fact that they spoke with all kinds of tongues, the Jews who were full of envy*’, who had grown old and aged in their sins, and not wishing for the truth, said’, mocking, « They Thave drunk sweet wine and are drunk' » : for it was the new wine of the perfect’ grace of the Spirit of which the divine apostles were full, having been purified by means of the
1. Rom. vır, 6 (not quoled). — 2. Corr. ‘ envious ᾿. — 3. Acts ı1, 12-22 « And they all expressed wonder and doubt one to another, saying, ‘ What meaneth this?’ But others mocking said, ‘ They are full of sweet wine ’. But, when Peter had risen with the eleven, he lifted up his voice and said to (hem, ‘ Ye Jews and all that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to-you and listen to my words. For those men are not drunk as ye think; for it is yet the third hour of the day. But it is what is spoken through the prophet Joel, « ‘ It shall be in the last days ', saith the Lord, ‘ I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen I will in those days pour out of my Spirit and they shall prophesy; and I will give signs in heaven and wonders upon the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and splendid day of the Lord come. And itshall be that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered ’ ». Men of Israel, hear Ihese words ’ ». — 4. Corr. © are full of honey-wine ᾿. — 5. Rom. ὙΠ, 6 « But now..... that we may serve in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. »
. oa aa Nuwanı IN}; Man "oe wo! N us
am N.lo „Lass Pl x ‚aasso .Li2o ;>0l ars, ey! dels Do .|Asaor 0 asus [as «»ὸ aan
tongues of fire : through whose prayers' we beseech thee make τι5 ἢ free and
pure from the old wickedness, Tas thou* art the only merciful one.
They are ended.
AGAIN HYMNS ON THE COMMEMORATIONS OF THE SAINTS.
THE FIRST ON THE BABES WHO WERE SLAIN BY HERoD AT BETHLEHEM.
I15 —ı — V. — « The avenging of the blood of thy bondmen that was shed »'. — Over the slaughter by Herod that was unjustly perpetrated’® of the children at Bethlehem Rachel“ shed tears, weeping over’ her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. For in that she was in darkness through‘ the obseurity of the shadow of the law she was still unable to "lift up her sight to° the rays of the light of the resurrection.
1. Corr. “ entreaty '. — 2. Carr. “ us also’. — 3. Carr. “ who ᾿. — A. Ps. Lxxıx, 10. — 5. Gorr. * ille-
gal ’. — 6. Jer. xxxt, 15, 16. — 7. Corr. “ for’. — 8. Corr. ‘ darkened by '. — 9. Corr. ‘ look at’.
[155] ON THE BABES SLAIN BY HEROD. 155 NasaiS usa LI. "leoras Ju dur ,.» nam Poadusil > ua aaalıma aus . ein hr Li, os Jo Ni; [AD Lusano su j00 po aa ao So — 9 — 9 — aus 0-3 "has ahasııa au Aus [SYS and, Lord as lad wArda N] 4.00] aan) mania ano
aB marg. Lnwjas iay „2 Iiygl we. — b Corr. jnsas, followed by ı over ο. — c Corr. Pa > Io hör. — d Corr. uoaaı.. — e Corr. vopa. — f Marg. „oa JrP Io 120 ‚Isar
1. A ey: — 2. A corr. from na->-
But the holy church, elearly beholding and seeing with open face! the glory of the new life that is to come, honours and loves the sacrifice that was Tbrought up? with Christ, and celebrates® the memory of the children as of martyrs, Tand entreats‘ that with those who suffered in Tour Saviour's’ place she may be admitted to inherit the kingdom of heaven.
116 — ın — IV. — « Because it is he that made us and not we ourselves » °. — Christ, the Word οἱ God, through whom everything’ came into being and was established, who also created man in the beginning and set him to rule over all, in that he blessed him and said to him the words, « Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it »*, he by becoming incarnate and becoming man of his own will "showed celearly’ that from the time of the crime of Herod and of the slaughter which he commanded against the children of Bethlehem in his madness he'’ converted this'' saying, « Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth » and brought it and restored it to heaven. Let
1. II Cor. ıı1, 18 (not quoted). — 2. Corr. ‘ of the same age’. — 3: Corr. ‘ commemorates '. — ἘΠ Gorr. © asking ’. — 5. Corr. “ his ’. — 6. Ps. c, 3, neither P nor zxx. — 7. Corr. ‘ all (hings ’. — 8. Gen. 1,27, 38 « And God created..... blessed them and said to tham..... earth. » — 9. Corr. * signified plainly ᾿. — 10. Corr. ‘ that he’, — 11. Corr. ‘ the’.
Zuuaas 2. "La, [Ao; INN has Ja So Aarıı
INDoAS u] Ian ua ἡ Jans bl, nano . bl, po
us all therefore give diligence to enter into the calling "which leads to hea-
ven ', praising his great merey toward us.
Acaın HYMNS ON THE (GOD-BEARER,
117 —ı — V. — «I will speak the praises of God with my mouth »°. — \While celebrating the memory of the Resurrection of our Saviour, I find that the incorruptible root of this is the Virgin, the God-bearer. For, when he that is not reckoned in genealogies became incarnate from her without the seed of a man, he underwent and "took upon°® himself a birth Tin time‘, and of his own will became son to Abraham and to David’; who is the Son and Word ofthe heavenly Father, he that was without mother in the beginning as God, and the same again a man without father from Mary. Her let us all entreat, her that is the gate® Tof heaven’, her that gave birth "without doubt*, and caused the great Sun of Righteousness to shine upon all ereatures,
1. Corr. “ heavenly ᾿. — 2. Ps. cxLıv, 21. — 3. Corr. ὁ asceribed to ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ temporal ’. — 5. Matth. 1, 1. —6. Gen. xxvıur, 16, 17 (verbal diff.), — 7. Corr. “ heavenly ’. — 8. Corr. ‘ undoubtedly ἡ.
[157] ON THE GOD-BEARER. 157 ham. dagsm Alan "hasse ADD Nu] ας aD stahre "NJarsan öue Dullo al] Jadas I „no Ans Are
a Corr. Bon» ss .nJom Lass. — b Corr. [as]. — c Marg. Ss LS jo Lie usoilo „ol „pP Sello -JINP or ne am PN his „olo „mad. [jans „oo os 0 | umso „naoso yorl. — — g Corr. Jioy3l aus. — h Corr. toh > ‚oouo. — I Marg. 1) 1ofaym>0 [leise Lofaya> „Lass
1. Sie A 17,273 18,819 Vat.; B ®>29; 17,136 14,713 Par. ®>aD- — 2. A om. 0. —3. A sing.
and after the birth remained sealed by a God-befitting' miracle. The’ Virgin, the mother and bondwoman of the Saviour of all, let us pray to supplicate and entreat "for us’.
118 — ın — VII. — « How great are thy works, O Lord! ν΄. — A great wonder! she who borrowed the rib of Adam, the beginning of our creation, and from it was built and fashioned, woman’, gave back and repaid the whole of human creation to the Word and Maker of all; and, having become incarnate and been born from her without variation, he was called and named Emmanuel‘, in that he that cannot be approached came among us by his grace. Her as the God-bearer let us beg and entireat to pray 'for us’, her that is honoured by all the saints; by the fathers*, because she received the ylorious blessing that was promised to them; by the prophets, him’ Fof whom they
1. Corr. * in God-befitting manner '. — 2. Corr. “ her that is the ’. — 3. Corr. * on our behalf'. - 4. Ps. ΧΟ, 6. — 5. Gen. ıı, 21,22 « And the Lord God..... And the Lord formed the rib..... to Adam. » — 6. Is. ὙΠ, 14 zxx «Lo!the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel. » — 7. Corr. * on our behalf'. — 8. Corr. “ patriarchs '. — 9. ‘ Because she bore ’ must be supplied, and so in the following clauses. All MSS. have the same,
JAN LIDL aD simon oa sage ya kin ia un — y — A, — Aus
<> „JADE J Jaio «399 Kuss Ja > lass las, sı am 59) <> An Hain Jo "Nas lass] το Nas Kar oo
a Corr. Joo; Jastse. — b Corr. \oodLr mass yes. — C Corr. ἡ. — d Corr. ολϑ Abasar. — i Marg. an» u» 095 Jooı Jo 510) Iran ao, Jooı Jose witz δ. a] eo Lay u Haas „Las k Corr. par. —] Corr. jpaad μ. — m Corr. Iso. —n Corr. ho (perh. for se Am:0).
1. neigt. — 2. B om. — 8. 222 4 in paint.
prophesied' beforehand « in many portions and in many ways »*; and by the apostles him who is proclaimed by them; and by the martyrs, "the master
of iheır contests’
and the giver of the erown and the cause of the contests : whom [we also ' praise, who for the sake of the salvation and life of our race carried out and performed ° Teverything with wisdom*.
119 — ııı — VII. — « Because the Lord took pleasure in Zion and chose it to himself for a habitation » '. — Thee, God-bearer and Virgin, one might very justly compare, and one might call thee the tent* Tof witness”, which was hidden "within the second curtain '°, which was called ‘ the holy of holies’''. For after the same model "Emmanuel abode and dwelt'* in thee, ıwho like the ark
which was composed of fine '* gold and of unputrified beams is composed of the
all-pure '' Godhead and of the manhood which is pure and uncorrupted and
l. Corr. “ who was prophesied of by Ihem ἡ. — 2. Heb. ı, 1 « In many porlions and in many ways God spake with our fathers in {he prophets who were before. » — 3. Corr. ° their lawgiver ’. — 4. Corr. * also we '. — 5. Ps. cıv, 24 (not quoled). — 6. Corr. ‘ all things wisely ᾿΄. — 7. Ps. exxxt, 13. — 8. Num. xvIr, 7, 8, ΧΥΠΙ, 2 (not quoted). — 9. Gorr. ‘ wilnessing ’. — 10. Corr. “ behind Ihe second veil . — 11. Heb.ıx, 3-5 « And the inner tent..... gold. And there is in it the vessel..... mercy-seat. » — 12. Corr, * who hast Emmanuel ’, — 13, Corr, * pure’, — 14, Corr, * unpolluted '.
= [159] ON THE GOD-BEARER. 159
:/NDolsa Jo ID dla sonaass sang [8 ia m N κῸ
(sie). — e Corr. oa aus] od. — f CorT. ‚sog. — g Corr. Ijlj> IE fe ul >. — ἢ (ΟΡ.
I. Δ wen. — 2. A WNao (prob. from a corr.; ef. nole g).
without seed, and is as the bread that came down "from heaven"! which was prefigured in? the vessel of gold and in® the manna that was in it. So also he imitated moreover the” rod of Aaron, which after it had withered budded and put forth fruit, in that‘ by means of his Humanization he took and renewed in himself our race that had grown old and aged by reason of sin; and he resembles the model of the merey-seat which was overshadowed by the wings of the holy cherubim, because of the invisibility ofthe Godhead. And so in thee we worship God, who became incarnate from thee truly without variation :
whom pray to deliver us for whom he became man, as he is mereiful.
120 — ıy — VIII. — « God hath sent forth his grace and his truth » ". — When a man looks toward thee, God-bearer and Virgin, Tand at“ the divine mystery which was by a miracle wrought in thee, he’ is silent because of the ineflability, and wondering is stirred to utter praise,-because of the great-
1. Corr. ‘ heavenly ᾿. — 2. Corr. “γ᾽. — 3. Corr. “ as the ᾿ς — 4. Unintelligible corr, — 5. Ps. LVII, 4. — 6. Corr, ὁ he beholds’. — 7, Corr. ὁ and’, infula rel “Lo; Yor>o : Nano som war ”Is;s0 Jaaa.=o 87) a0 :39.}} 000 gr-Muuo Ni! u Unseo, Jo 122.50 2.00 ara Lim] „> .’AnLı mujso durflua AL DIA hun Lass aa „Ds Ju si smadurfn
‚Ho Basis. — g ÜOTT. pool» ἃ Jası. — ἢ Corr. Imauooitse. — I Corr. pa]. — j Marg. „ur
ness of him who helped' us so much. The Word of God himself, who came down upon the high mountain of Sinai to lay down the law for the people, and hid that peak with smoke and’ gloom and with darkness and” mist, and by the flashing of terrible mighty lightnings and by the sound of trumpets" caused those who were standing round to marvel, and taught them through such fears and terrors, came down upon thee, Mary, the rational mountain, peacefully and gently and mercifully’; in that he blessed this and hallowed it by the descent‘ of the Holy Spirit, and so became incarnate of her without variation, in flesh which !is of our nature’, endowed with a living, rational, intelligent soul,'and became perfectly man, while he remained what he is, God; in order to do away the oflence of our father Adam, and deliver and restore* the lost one, according to the riches of his great mercy.
meet God; and {πὸν stood beneath the mountain. And all the mount of Sinai smoked, because God
18 ΑΛ « And Moses led the people out from the camp to
had come down upon it in fire; and its smoke went up as Ihe smoke of a furnace. And the whole people were greally astonished : and there were {he voices of a clarion, being prolonged, much more mighty. » — 3. Corr. “ and with ’. — 4. Id. xx, 18, 19 zxıx « And all the people saw the voice and the torches and the voice of the clarion, and the smoking mountain. And, when the whole people feared and quaked, he stood afar off; and they said to Moses, ‘ Speak thou to us and we will hear;
[101] ON THE GOD-BEARER. 161
a Corr. nass amı, followed by ı over „ — b Corr. ss». — ce Corr. yo (510) oaıso N] Nas 095 Jill} onaa naax |j;00 .giarjs Kurse „ao .|Anaun (SIC) 9,220 „uoporwl yamo Jap. — ἃ Corr.
“ass. — 1 Corr. (510) op Maus pP.
121 — v — VII. — « We have become as they that rejoice »'. — Whenever we flift up the thoughts of our mind? toward thee, God-bearer and Virgin Mary, and consider the only Son and the Word of the invisible Father; who received a body from the descent of the Holy Spirit and from thee in pure fashion and Thypostatically and without variation® partook of the nature of our manhood; who was attacked before by the evil one because of sin, and was rejected and made an alien from the Father, and the same again similarly raised' us with him and lifted us up together and made us sit with him in glory Tin heaven’, we repeat to° thee, holy mother who !knewest not! copulation, the expressions of the patriarch Jacob, « This is the place of God; and this is the gate of heaven »°; through which we who had been cast
1. Ps. cexxv, 1. — 2. Corr. ‘ make the consideration to ascend '. — 3. Corr. “ in hyposlasis and unvaryingly '. — 4. Eph. τι, 4-6 « But God..... and made ussit with him in Jesus Christ.... Jesus Christ. » — 5. Corr. * among the heavenly beings ’. — 6. Corr. “ concerning '. — 7. Corr. ὁ hast no experience οἵ. — 8. Gen. xxvıu, 16-18 « And Jacob woke..... a stone and set (it as) his pillow..... Bethel » (verbal
ee “nsls Jaxs unamn Jlaus,oı> „20 „ir so .ool ads;
JNSI 20 |Auu Jaaıs bo oaso :jjas8 Sa, fat «5 Jan Los od „ad hoc INN Nas. wars IN uras am "aab 2." Asyl Io MI J a sn „'faniredl durde
— b Corr. j8». — c Corr. asus. — d Üorr. 109 prax. — e Marg. „0 % .(SIC) Jalän;
down beneath have been raised up on high. And therefore, also when we oller up our prayers in faith through thee to the Lord who shone forth from thee, we receive from him forgiveness of sins and the riches of his great
122 — νι — VI — « Because it is he that made us, and not we ourit with a living and rational soul, made and formed man in his® divine image;
. — Aloretime God, by moulding dust from the earth? and endowing
but, when the clay through fleshlv lusts had buried the divine likeness, the mind, in earth, he that is the Creator of all, the Son and the Word of God and the Father, without undergoing variation of the living and Holy Spirit and of thee, Mary, the God-bearer, the Virgin, became of his own will man; in order that he might also make the first beauty ‘ of the rational and suprasensual image more divine for us, and might plant in flesh the immortality of the new life through a God-befitting Resurieetion, which signified that it has
1. Ps. c, 3, neilher P nor zxx. — 2. Gen. τι, 7 (verbal diff.). — 3. Corr. ὁ the ᾿. — 4. Corr. ‘ grace’.
[163] ON THE HOLY JOHN THE BAPTIST. 163
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mel „ya! ὁ MI Ile (aaasıs \ojso]lo \orami Jo ‚Jlasa „ala [jo Way oa „ji Imgo5 So wopuas ‚Po) Ki> je „Do το ans [N wasser zu, aa ul. — b Marg. ua adj] ur 32 .ulkoo Koak 0 Hl gl as Jusas (ohaaı po Po «οἱ SS Mas nauad Jausir N Jap can Js [Azur |
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no copulation in it by causing the first-born ' from among the dead to spring forth and grow from a Virgin : whom beg and pray to keep us in incorrup-
AGaın HYMNS ON THE HOLY JOHN THE Baptist.
123 — ı — V. — « Serve the Lord in fear »". — All ve who wish to honour the memory of John with faith, bring forth® the yood fruits that are meet for repentance : for he that is the greatest ἡ and most ewalted among those born of women is greater than praises in words. He passed the measure and standard Tof the holy prophets°; for he did not prophesy of Emmanuel but pointed him out. He foreran the birth of our Saviour from the holy Virgin:
bal ditf.). Ref. also to Luke vır, 24-28. — 5. Corr. ‘ prophelie ', aD. N Azadua Ja um: ‚ah? ya, „bee
Jon u] Igel rel ae Lad." od So wann s;/i» rear waorinas „are Ja en Dan "aan Joa dur, wars 06 ba Lass LI zlaD Ἀ] bar als An zaoh.]| am omo m) aida Luds; Ju Dası .ISSS 0 Ib 'Lula Aneasorta Il > .Luyol 5. Sn Jona
00; aa nam. — ἢ Corr. asıl. — g Corr. jo. — hMarg. on; Joaso. (SIC) as gol ua; „a8 Nooy Sp J blo .uuo 007 “mono So „os op Joom. — i Corr. 05. — Ὡ Marg. .SS5 in50
1. A ὁ added, app. in later hand. wmSL| must be taken as corr. — 2. B om. new. As an apostle he preached the Gospel; as a chosen martyr he bowed
his head and it was eut off; with his' right hand he began the holy mysteries that were celebrated in Jordan : whom let us beg and entreat to pray on behall of our souls.
124 — ıı — VII. — « Help me, God our Saviour »”. — When the’ world what other ambassador could recourse be had, who was" suflicient to pray and Baplısh, who showedst Christ plainly to men by erying and saying, « "This is’ the Lamb of God°, that taketh away the sin of the world and saveth it », and didst confess that Tthe same” is Lord and God over all by saying and testifying that « He that cometh from above, he 15. above
1. Corr. ‘ the .— 9. Ps. ıxxıx, 9. — 3. Corr. ‘ 81} [86 ’. — 4. Corr. ‘ was able io be ’. — 5. Corr. © Lo! ’, — 6. John 1, 29-31. — 7. Corr. “ he’.
1165] ON THE HOLY JOHN THE BAPTIST. 165
kl ng” "NosMu SA» amsll, ost DAinımn "onso ‚usası JA una lad", mus ’ Hirdis INo „Du; JNuDo don
> ID Dr fass, Ju] san 500 Lie Sul — u — N — ano
a Corr. pas; „1. — b Corr. sro air Ho. — ὁ Marg. ua. jLI us} INeins ur 00 .uAdor
A .sar| was τυ] Lost 9. SIC) am Mus ommilo mo wars 00 ul 05% ja 901 „Mor
all »'? whom beg and entreat to save all those whom he created in his grace and in? his great mercy.
125 — ın — V. — « To show the name of the Lord in Zion »’. — Now again also the voice of the Forerunner ' causes God to dwell in souls destitute of the knowledge of God by erying and saying to everyone, « Be converted' and repent because® the kingdom of heaven is fat hand’ » : and his® revered head which was cut off for virtue’s sake restrains him that is married’ contrary to the law, as The said to Herod '" also when he was persecuting him,
'', The memory therefore
« It is not permissible for thee to take her to wife » of these things and the fear of thee ground in our'* souls through'” his prayers, Christ, God; and "perform thy '' merey upon all of us, according to the abundance of thy great merey.
126 — ıy — VIIO. — « Turn, Lord, and deliver my soul » '*. — The tree
1. Τά. 111, 29-32 « He that hath..... speakelh of the earth. But he that.... receiveth » (verbal diff.). —
5. Matth. πι. 1, 2. — 6. Corr. ‘ for ’. — 7. Corr. ὁ near ᾿. — 8. Corr. ‘ the ’. — 9. Unintelligible corr. — 10. Corr. ‘ it did Herod, saying ’. — 11. Matth. xıv, 3,4. Ref. also to Mark vı, 17, 18. — 12. Corr. ‘us
13. Gorr. “ by’. — 14. Corr. * have’. — 15. Ps. vı, 5.
100 IIYMNS OF SEVERUS. 1166) Ar m "as las ana en an, μὲ JEro ‚JLolaisoro Muzas lo waadhıdha . as.) gar; real, Jl2 “> „aslo ..Lysasmoo Mau ısina Au >, son mdaanım SA laima
=» "wars m Ja,.o Ns;
510) HoamS 1} maaso Jo or JIN> [ifo μὲ > bi JE aa ML Jos „ses ale .waal Jo je (SIC) οι»
plo Be Las lo .Hdajlo (SIC) uudo] τὸ „Nun |ror «ϑὶ Gaasa uno [IS op ;iol „sl Haas fisal
of my soul that is "devoid of" fruits has grown fat? and thick and broad from ὃ the weight of leshly lusts and pleasures; and I see that already the ax of threatening is laid to tke root : but may thy words, OÖ! Forerunner of our Saviour and Baptist, run before, and produce in me good fruits meet for?’ repentance, and may they hinder and prevent the stroke" because of the mer-
cifulness of him who willeth the life and conversion of sinners, Christ our God.
ON THE HOLY STEPHEN,
127 — ı — VI. — « Thou shall gladden him with joy with thy countenance »΄. — With the first combatant and leader of the lines of the spiritual battle ofthe holy martyrs, which is heavenly and angelic, Stephen the brave ἢ
1. Corr. * without ’. — 2. Deut. xxxır, 15 zXXx « And Jacob ale and was sated and the beloved kicked. And he grew fat and thick, and he grew broad and left the Lord who made him; he wilhdrew from God his Saviıour. » — 3. Corr. “γ᾿. — 4. Matth. ım, 10 « Lo! the ax..... fire. » — 5. Corr. “ of’.
ol) Kaas an gina „5 Jar So IA ya Kal ago ya; JaS aa ui oAaislo lad", „Moor gun Jr20 Shine we Itoias A Er EL. ana °Joa in Jloyorm; Das "hör; Jasi od wurlsh Am I ja 8 0001 gay as rElanı Lars u Sl ‚ara m hal yaslllo Dil] „a ,nfrıa haln Lo No "La od Kia da.) gi aa Ian um Ju a dor Js so naar
‚I 85 jlanıaf nor B «ον.» 055 asp no. — d Corr. Ira ro. — 6 Corr. “sope. — f Marg. „oo Ju. — h Corr. Ju» Bayiot. — i Corr. jn.nzs (to precede). — j Marg. po „nmsr3}
asmo ai) ojam fo} Has ur ano „2 ‚Jo, Hansa, 0 Joh „a July do am „a san 510) [μα μῃο «5» Has Io .bia> „s Fer dur Wo Vao warn, Lo „lo [ro „» was Am 00097 yayjo .DoLa „p20r el [701 20 «501 had So Jamst P.
1. A wu. — 2, A a; olher MSS Dani. — 3.4 wohldlo B waıs|gm.
and-high souled, as with a strong wall that cannot be broken through and as
with a crown of glory, thou hast surrounded thy' churches, Christ, God, our
benefactor. \Vherefore, singing with the prophet David ἡ, we say, « Lord, thou hast crowned us as with the armour of thy favour »; through * whose prayers and entreaties we bey bestow upon all of us thy great mercy.
128 — ın — VIII. — « He shall receive a blessing from the Lord »'. — Stephen, the "beginning οὗ ἢ martyrs, even before being glorified by martyrdom, Twas already adorned® and crowned with a crown of martyrdom. For even the deceitful assembly of those who judged him contrary to the law beheld him as’ an angel of God and were ashamed : and after the "great and divine teaching* before the assembly, having been raised and exalted on high by
1. Corr. “the ᾿. — 2. Ps. v, 13 zwx « Because thou shalt bless the righteous. Lord, thou hast among ’. — 6. Corr. ‘ shines '. — 7. Acts νι, 15 «And, when all those who were sitting in the assembly had looked fixedly at him, they saw his face as the face of an angel. » — 8. Corn. ἡ long and
divine exposilion '.
N > JE <> .J>lo JaI; use, «Ὁ »ks = rear war. Do "Lie usa wan " 9. So! lad}, 0 „Jar Jude Lo (or
fans (ui Sy Nuss vol
a Corr. pp. — b Corr. so. — Ο Corr. Jos. — ἃ Corr. Its. — 6 Corr. jn.Jo. —
his‘ words, he saw with his mind? heaven opened, and Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God and the Father. Thereupon, being without the body, as if he did not perceive that he was being stoned with stones, he "made entreaty ἡ even for those who stoned him, saying to God, « Reckon not this sin to them, Lord » : by whose prayers be pitiful and merciful to all of
us also, "Lord that‘ taketh pleasure in the saints.
ÄGAIN HYMNS ON THE HOLY ÄPOSTLES.
129 — ı — VIII. — « The great men of Judah and their rulers »’. — Apostles of the truth and preachers and teachers of the church, for you all cities and countries, even the ends and limit of the inhabited earth, always rightly celebrate a commemoration and a festival that shall not The hlotted
1. Corr. ἡ his own ἡ. — 2. Id. vır, 55-60 « And, being full of the Holy Spirit, when he had looked to heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at (he right hand of God and he saith, ‘Lo!I see heaven opened, and {he Son of man standing at the right hand of God’. And, having eried with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him all together : and, having taken him outside the eity, they stoned him, and the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul. And they stoned Stephen while he eried and said, ‘ Lord Jesus, receive my spirit '. And, having kneeled down, he cried wilh a loud voice, ‘ Lord, lay not this sin to their charge '. And, having said this, he fell asleep. » — 3. Corr. “ prayed ἡ, — 4. Corr. ° God of '. — 5. Ps. LXVIII, 28.
[169] ON TUE HOLY PAUL THE APOSTLE. 169 ln? „10 J lan Jain so „aa Jo ansohal Ἢ sah alas „adur? „lien olo lina [161] a Aao ᾿ς adur? LO III I "banıs oA, ToNL| .anlal
else Tales fa.o Ns
a Marg. „> Jo Jaxsol ‚cool; ..nas ro μὰ Pr pas 0N00 yysada. [50 both MSS.) haöls Mop> ‚so ul "padss Jon zul (SIC) (os 94.10 „Kanssoo Jams Ji,s ταν Jo Kiss Kuss yol
‚as Nfasios Jooı Jo Aus; nal Joa Pr punase opoans Ir ujosası pi. — b Corr. ori (to follow o?). — e Corr. pasäs. — d Corr. up. — e Marg. .or- 55 om Pax-> SA Pas λα»
out‘. For there are no speeches or words* to be found through which your voices were not heard, and where they are not borne on the lips of every man, but also in that they are always moreover spoken* as living words through the signs and mighty acts and miracles that ye do : and‘, as flowers of the church ® who every day shoot forth the salvation of the believers and again as rational and heavenly luminaries°, you give light to all them that sit in darkness’ without knowledge; make supplication therefore, TI pray* you, that the minds of us all may be strengthened by your divine teachings, and that we may be admitted to find great merecy.
130 — ı — IV. — « Thou gavest gifts to men »°. — Paul the yreat among
1. Corr. “ die’. — 2. Id. xıx, 2-5. — 3. Philipp. ır, 14-16 (verbal diff.) (eited as Eph.). — A. Corr. people that was silting in darkness saw a great light : and {hey that were sitting (in the land) of the shadows of death, upon them light shone. » — 8. Corr. ‘ we entreat'. — 9. Ps. rxvıur, 19.
‚Järo [1819 Iso) Jas duralr 1awa > ‚Iunuhı Hal Jo any& :Jaisdo gr "Nupabo dy4sS5 Joor end „2 00 gu N ap a) Ja .aml iAyır aa Kine
‚Jo Manu, Main.
aaa οὐ OL ua u el a. — δ᾽ Corr. aus [[0 precede?). — h Marg. ;>01 ..armsis}
— ı Corr. 2.1. — Corr. uassax.
1. A wollol® B wala9d. 5. Dual.
apostles more than all men partook of the riches' of the hidden treasures of thy wisdom, seeing that in the words of teaching he had thee in him speaking? richly, and’ working and acting divinely, in all miracles and signs and mighty acts; who, while carrying in his heart both all the eities' and the congregations, cried io certain men, saying to them, « Ye are not straitened in me; but ye are straitened in your heart » °; since he was also able to bear thy great and holy name « before peoples and before kings and the sons of Israel »°, as” thou didst bear witness in thy words that cannot lie: by whose prayers bestow knowledge and understanding of divine things upon all of
1. Col. ı1, 1-3 « But I wish you to know, my brethren, what..... and of knowledge. » — 2. II Cor. xım, 2, 3. — 3. Corr. * Christ, and’. — 4. Id. vır, 3 « For I said before that ye are in our heart », ΧΙ, 28. Ref. also to Philipp. 1, 7. —5. II Cor. νι, 11, 12 « Our mouth.... ye are not straitened in me; but ye are straitened in your heart. » — 6. Acts ıx, 15 « The Lord said to Ananias, ‘ Go because
{his man is a vessel of election to me, who shall carry my name before peoples and kings and {he sons of Israel ν᾽. — 7. Corr. ‘ according to '. — 8. Corr. ὁ we entreat '.
[171] ΟΝ JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN AND EVANGELIST. 171
ala dran aDl; Sara ao „N Ark, os „Lanal, lo
a Corr. pas oo8 yo aan, σαν! ade .u,>) ja ano .[2a fax |assanlı also „umanikso „Bas; wis Soul} „may; wis. — Ὁ Marg. joo1 =ooN.| IS20 og „IN Joa; wooh.| Anıza „Km ol rar e Gorr. ss (510) soll „no tasjs. — IB corr. po aus. — 6 Corr. nujun. — f Marg. .oux
(hymn 132) B is in another hand and has words and letters in painf, corrections, and marginal references like A. — 4. Deleted in B; 17,136 18,819 om.
On Jous THE THEoLOGIAN AND EVAnGELIST.
131 — ı — VII. — « All the peoples shall bless him » '. — The preacher and apostle, John the Evangelist, who by Christ, even God, his Master, was before named 'son of thunder’°’, and for this reason divinely thundered with loud ὁ voice the words, « In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ν΄, and !stirred up’ and instilled wonder in all the ears of wise and of unwise, whom also Jesus particularly ® loved more than the rest ofthe disciples his fellows", by whom he was proclaimed * God, let us bey and beseech together with the God-bearer and Virgin to
1-3 « In the beginning..... and the Word is God. He is in the beginning..... was nothing made »
(verbal diff.). — 5. Corr. ‘ caused to’. — 6. Corr. “ especially ’. — 7. Id. xıır, 23-25 (verbal diff.), xxt,
20 « And Simon Cephas Lurned..... (he supper. » — 8. Corr. ‘ called '.
Ja hai aan Mahn
Aa lol wa.o;|o haus Ns
N unse "oLıojas dia! ya > ya "am duaar?
a Marg. «19 „kuss war guNsls yamaaı ass ἡ wu] ‚hans 150) 20 Am Ile] jay INojRa. .].KAusao Jene Ns Auer ih or 2 ups Lrolaos [Mao 111 Ja De au „0 .Liyiaadh [1] ls hoaus
entreat for us', in order that, building* all the’ service of works of virtues upon this foundation of faith, we may be admitted to find great merey.
ON THE HOLY Mark THE EVANGELIST.
132 — ı — VI. — « He shall manage his words with judgment »'. — The divine Mark, the true diseiple of the great Peter the chief of the apostles, having with readiness proclaimed or preached’ to creation day by day the salvation of Christ our God, and having with the great among prophets "David the Psalmist“ made known his glory, taught the whole of Egypt, which had become drunk in pursuit of the error of demon-worship, not only to believe, but also to proclaim the theology with all accuracy’. Wherefore, reckoning
1. Gorr. * on our behalf ’. — 2. I Cor. π|. 11-13. — 3. Corr. “ good '. — %. Ps. cxıı, 5 zxx, — 5. Id. xevt, 2 (not quoted), — 6. Corr. ὁ who sings ᾿. — 7. Mart. 5. Marei 3 (Act. SS. Apr. III, p. 350, id., P. XXXVIIL, XXXIX) « And his family was of Pentapolis. And the blessed Mark on the second day came to Alexandria; and, having left the ship, he came to a place called Mendidium. And, when he had entered the city-gate the strap of his sandal broke. And the blessed apostle, when he knew it, said ‘“ Verily (ὄντως) the journey is confirmed ’. And, when he saw a cobbler, he gave him his sandal to mend it. But the cobbler wounded his left hand severely with the punch; and he said, ‘ One God '. >ut Mark, when he heard ‘ One God ’, said, ‘ God has confirmed my journey ἢ».
[173]. ON JOHN THE EVANG. AND THOMAS THE APOSTLE. 173
Da [soll had Nuso Ha lol gun ha.o Ns
a Ki ham 2.0 heoll ‚durfusar Ina ad Lnadoll; Nina of Haas „alu Hua a, “ost „nadur‘n so,| JoNo 0 has Nine Han 00 .Lemlo Kudo smadurfa maıdır
a Corr. 1 for 4. — " B marg. So zor! was (as go. — C Corr. τι. — d Corr. Loon.
is nothing in the mare.
the commemoration of this man to be our erown, we beseech thee, Christ, through' his intercession deliver the souls of us all, according to the abundance of thy great merey.
ΟΝ THE HOLY JOHN THE EVANGELIST, AND ON THE HOLY
TuomAs THE APosTLE.
1335 — ı — VIII. — « The power that is in his works he hath shown unto his people »". — John’the Theologian by resting on the breast of the Wisdom and Word who became incarnate sucked and drew in a stream of his hands the side of Life, from which he poured forth celeansing blood! and quickening water for us in abundance, confirmed our right faith, in that he confessed him who suflered and died on our behalf in the flesh to be Lord and
1. Corr. “by '. — 2. Ps. cxr, 6. — 3. John χα, 23 (not quoted). — 4. Corr. ‘ made blood of cleansing to spring forth ’.
NND [Ds !sooll, ka. o Ns
Amar "Liz "ih Aha oil, Jorado ‚ amudunfn
e Corr. px» aus. — f Corr. nu».
God; who was willingly saecrificed and. ıs slain and a physician; who was alive among the dead, who was free' in the dark and yloomy chambers of Sheol : whom also let us beseech and entreat to bestow upon all of us his
great mercy and forgiveness of our offences by the prayers of his saints.
134 — ı — IV. — « I will speak the praises of the Lord with my mouth ν΄". — When we celebrate εἰν ὁ commemoration, Apostle Thomas, we remember the divine salvation that was wrought for us by thy means. For by beneficially "doubting in thy faith‘ and touching God who had become incarnate thou showedst those that are allected with the disease of the phantasy concerning the Humanization ofthe Word to be children of error; and thou didst eonviet and expose’ the preachers ofthe evil heresy of the Diphysites, in that thou didst recognise God of God, who became man without variation for our sake, to
1. Ps. LXXxvIu, 6 (not quoted). — 2. Ps. cxLiv, 21. — 3. Corr. “ΑἹ ihy ᾿. — 4. Corr. “ not believing’.
[475] ON THE HOLY PROPHETS. 175
. JLause.cı ya rel "glenggi® ydas IN 22} oo ‚kan Jabas Jh
> IH same Way oaaas umso .„jja> Jasy (SIC) Ham aiaso .„|adaNaı oiro „anal |Asaäs (SIE) op! Saar el Jo „op omas wir zei fo (DIS) Kim omduys (SIC) uno „Lisa uno Ir ur hoaus Jlas5 NL 1y20/0 „as Ausjo „Kal hijo pasas Aupis γα „wpar gal ud Aammso „Jun. — { Marg. .o2o., Jjasoyo „so. — g Corr. jo; Sa.
be one and the same; to whom we, worshipping with thee, say' with faıth, « My Lord* and my God, praise to thee! »
AGAIN HYMNS ON THE HOLY PROPHETS.
135 — ı— VI. — « I will bless the Lord always »’. — Thee, Christ, Saviour of all, who without seed sprangest [rom the Virgin, the God-bearer, Isaialı saw beforehand with the eye of the spirit and said, « A rod shall come out of the root of Jesse » '; which same rod’ Zechariah the prophet also the son of Barachiah called and named 'beautiful’ : for it is « beautiful to behold® beyond
1. Corr. * we say '. — 2. Jahn xx, 24-239 « But Thomas..... nails and place my hand in his side, I will not..... have believed. » — 3. Ps. xxxIv, 2. — 4. Is. x, 33-x1, 3 « Lo! the Lord God shall over- Lhrow..... Jesse, and his root shall blossom. And the Spirit..... shall he reprove. » —5. Zech. ΧΙ, 7-8 jpeas. — e Corr. ο. — f Marg. jo ass pi! Pleo „Jo Joh > ano} od} Jjloo „Las Lilss
1. A Noms. 9. A om. — 3. B με Lk 152,, with marks which seem to show that we are to
men »', as David sings. — Concerning which* rod again Ezekiel also the great among prophets heard the words, « But thou, man, take to thee a rod or piece ofıwood, and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel’ »°; in order that through this he might prefigure thee, Lord, who art our peace; who madest the two sides one and didst unite things that were distant, and‘ becamest one perfect and true mouth of all the prophets together, and through ty saving’ coming in the llesh showedst them to be no liars : by whose
prayers have pity and mercy upon us. ΟΝ THE HOLY ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET.
136 — 1 — II. — « Beg of the Lord and pray before him »°. — Zechariah the prophet, who foresawest and madest announcement and spakest concerning the cessation and peace regarding” the destruction of Jerusalem, and concerning
[177] ON THE HOLY ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET. 177 Ja Lunsseb Tassl] „Ani Il, n Numas dam audunfn 55 BasalıaNo N Wer 777] Ja, aD > Jia wa.n.aı „aaa; Ar mhamıl, I also [580 2; basis dunar?
„bat Mad σι „UN Li ol Suas| „Kay Glas] Hu ur Dar Do „Bil Sa gs] Ss Jalaı, ‚uojäsfabo „oamiaN jsayto os ax Jjalo -Jlasas ars hal War ofuado. — 6 ÜCorr. or os Jauoos 8 Milo yours. — f Corr. Sa. — 9 Corr. Sur.
the building' of the temple, saying’, « Jerusalem shall be inhabited as one that is fertile or fruitful »°*, and, « The glory of this house shall be greater than its“ former glory »°, and regarding the suprasensual® sickle’ that convieted of perjury, entreat* Christ, the God of us all, to bestow upon
his‘ churches the peace and concord that comes from him; and by means of
thy sickle to cut away and abolish the falsehood of all heresies and barbarian enemies or peoples who desire wars, and bestow upon us his grace and his great mercy.
1. Corr. “ raising '. — 2. Corr. ‘ and sayest ' — ὃ. Zech. 11, 3-5 χὰ « And the angel who was speaking with me was standing; and another angel was going forth to meet him. And he spake to him, saying, ‘ Run, say to that young man, saying, « Jerusalem shall be inhabited (as) one that is fruitful from the number of men and cattle within it; ‘ And I’, saith the. Lord, ‘ will be to it a wall of fire round it, and I will be for a glory within it ’» "». — 4. Corr. the ’ — 5. Hag. τι, 9, 10 zxx «* Mine is the silver and mine is the gold ’, saith the Lord, the Ruler of all; ‘ since the last glory of this house shall be greater than the first ’, saith the Lord, the Ruler of all. » — 6. Zech. v, 1-5 ZXX «ΤΊ 6 up my eyes and saw a sickle flying, its length 20 eubits, and its breadth 10 eubits. And he said to me, ‘ This is (he eurse that goeth forth over the face of all the earth; because everyone that stealeth from it is vietorious Jike it (2). «I will bring it forth, » saith the mighty Lord, « and it shall enter the house of the Ihief and the house of everyone that sweareth falsely in my name, and shall abide within his house, and shall destroy its beams and its stones » ' ». — 7. Unintelligible eorr. —
PABRELON. TEN, 12
— b Corr. 0. — ὁ Corr. „ass; zoo] Kaons. — ἃ Marg. o5 zoo! Ban By hl sy „sale
ON THE RIGHTEOUS JOB AND ON OUR BROTHERS IN THE PTOcHEION.
137 — ı — VII — « Know that the Lord hath by a miracle set apart for himself one that is chosen »'. Wonderful truly is God in his saints” as it ıs written; who also left the righteous Job as the type of a column” of patience to the world; who was chastised not in requital for sins, but only to try and test virtue, "since he' looked in faith for the resurrection [rom the dead and said, « For I know that Tthe copious spring of him that shall release me° shall not pass away upon the earth®, but” will quicken and raise my skin which endures these things ». And let us therefore, my brethren, who are afflieted® with the like pains’ and stripes, show due patience through '"
1. Ps. ıv, 4. — 2. Id. ıxvum, 36 zXv « Wonderful is God among his saints, the God of Israel : he shall give power and strength to his people, blessed is God. » — 3. Or “ resurrection ἡ; the double « I know that he that shall release me is without end upon earth. He shall raise my skin which endureth these things from the Lord. These things have been accomplished. » — 7. Corr. ‘ he that shall release me is eternal for ever upon the earth, and ’. — 8. Corr. ‘ wretched '. — 9. Corr. ° sores -
[179] ON THE RIGHTEOUS JOB. 179
longsuffering and confession, and look for the blessed hope of the quickening and of the resurrection /rom the dead; in order that we may be admitted to receive a glorious body, and all to praise Christ who is our life and resurrection.
2 notes
- 91 ON THE MIRACLES. A. Dr sido wa SS ‚por Jlasgo Ju, us „suis dr RS
- 107 ON THE HOLY STEPHEN.