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 1 Text|        the Ever-Virgin Mother of God. The desire is double, not
 2 Text|       our love for the Mother of God in hymns composed according
 3 Text|       the Ever-Virgin. Mother of God! Even so we celebrate today
 4 Text|          by her proximity to the God of all, and in the wondrous
 5 Text|        the Ever-Virgin Mother of God. The flow of generations
 6 Text|       was timelessly begotten of God the Father before the ages.
 7 Text|        accordingly the Mother of God strangely changed her dwelling
 8 Text|       her father to the house of God while still an infant .
 9 Text| disclosures and salutations from God which overturn the condemnation
10 Text|        was the incarnate Word of God. Thus the Word of God took
11 Text|         of God. Thus the Word of God took up His dwelling in
12 Text|          kenosis) of the Word of God, she was also rightly glorified
13 Text| encouragements which she gave to God's heralds sent throughout
14 Text|  wondrous deeds of the Mother of God, but also adds thereto the
15 Text|          she alone stood between God and the whole human race,
16 Text|        and the whole human race, God became the Son of Man and
17 Text|         Man and made men sons of God; she made earth heavenly,
18 Text|         nature and the Mother of God transcending every law of
19 Text|            But now the Mother of God has her dwelling in Heaven
20 Text|        in her body, glorified by God, now enjoys the celestial
21 Text|      soul, which was an abode of God's grace, ascended into Heaven
22 Text|         and only-begotten Son of God, the ever-flowing Wellspring
23 Text|        the case with her Son and God, and so it was taken up
24 Text|          to both angels and men, God fashioned a being supremely
25 Text|        which all those graced of God have separately, both angels
26 Text|        together with her Son and God in her body. For this reason
27 Text|       beauty, O Virgin Mother of God? Thoughts and words are
28 Text|     degree that she is closer to God than all those who have
29 Text|         seraphim are round about God, but the only Queen of all
30 Text|       wondered at and praised by God Himself, proclaiming her,
31 Text|         station of the Mother of God far trancer Is that of the
32 Text|     themselves as glorifying the God come from her, saying, "
33 Text|          other than the House of God, and this is the Gate of
34 Text|        both partake of and touch God, that Nature which defies
35 Text|        no man that shall come to God except he be truly illumined
36 Text|       even as the Prophet says, "God is in the midst of her,
37 Text|          the measure of love for God, and if the man who loves
38 Text|       that as many as partake of God do partake, and as many
39 Text|     partake, and as many as know God understand her to be the
40 Text|         One, and as many as hymn God praise her together with
41 Text|      sojourning of the Spirit of God, since thou hast become