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St. Gregory Palamas
Homily on Dormition

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1 Text| songs of praise" (Prov. 10:7). How much more ought 2 Text| as David foretold (Ps. 44:11) and, "He bowed the heavens 3 Text| man is honorable" (cf. Ps. 115:6) and the "memory of the 4 Text| the "ark of holiness" (Ps. 131:8) is resurrected, after 5 Text| more than the sand" (Ps. 138:17). And according to Solomon, " 6 Text| round about Him" (Isaiah 6:2); but David says concerning 7 Text| the Gate of Heaven" (Gen. 28:17). But David, joining 8 Text| and women" (cf. Prov. 31:29). For while she alone stood 9 Text| men and women" (cf. Prov. 31:29). For while she alone 10 Text| companion" (cf. Song of Songs 6:4), she is more radiant than 11 Text| shall not be shaken'(Ps. 45:5). ~If recompense is bestowed 12 Text| shall not be shaken'(Ps. 45:5). ~If recompense is bestowed 13 Text| Both, and They mystically abide and walk in him, as it is 14 Text| composed according to our abilities. ~If, then, "death of the 15 Text| graces-and she grants us even our ability to look towards her. Because 16 Text| below, a thing which is abundantly evident, how could it be 17 Text| was given to the Giver; so accordingly the Mother of God strangely 18 Text| those (lualities which were added to her nature by grace, 19 Text| together with Him, ever adding thereto the supernatural 20 Text| Archangel, descended from above, addressed to her, and disclosures 21 Text| Mother of God, but also adds thereto the strange gathering 22 Text| of celestial beings, the adornment of all creation. She is 23 Text| nothing, neither air nor aether nor anything sensible, nor 24 Text| linen and the burial clothes afford the apostles a demonstration 25 Text| by whom all holiness is afforded to the saints, I mean the 26 Text| Isaiah when he saw the bush aflame with fire, yet unconsumed. 27 Text| what came after her and the agent of things eternal. She is 28 Text| separated by nothing, neither air nor aether nor anything 29 Text| expended by our own and by aliens, by those without and by 30 Text| of the Most High and the all-holy virginal womb was the incarnate 31 Text| She alone has received the all-pervading fulness of Him that filleth 32 Text| strange gathering at her all-sacred burial of all the sacred 33 Text| seraphim take the coal from the altar without mediation, but with 34 | although 35 | always 36 | am 37 Text| and unto the endless ages. Amen. ~ ~ 38 Text| Isaiah beheld this throne amidst the choir of cherubim and 39 Text| wherein under the care of an angel she enjoyed ineffable nourishment 40 Text| supremely virtuous Joachim and Anna of what was to be accomplished: 41 Text| wonders and deeds is the annunciation to the supremely virtuous 42 | any 43 | anyone 44 Text| the words of the divine Apostle, "things which angels desire 45 Text| proportion to our passions, apportioning abundant grace to our souls 46 Text| than the angels and the archangels and all the super-celestial 47 Text| God-befitting glory, and the "ark of holiness" (Ps. 131:8) 48 Text| with Christ Who formerly arose from the dead on the third 49 Text| embellished both worlds. By her ascension now from the tomb, she is 50 Text| mighty deeds. And after the ascent into the heavens of Him 51 Text| most valiant and diverse asceticism, and with her prayers and 52 Text| another and scatter those who assault us from without-like savage 53 Text| though an archangel also assisted at the conception) conceived 54 Text| before, following after, assisting, opposing, defending, being 55 Text| who rose up against and attacked that body with hand and 56 Text| me, though speech cannot attain to what surpasses it, just 57 Text| Solomon, "many daughters have attained wealth, many have wrought 58 Text| taken from the earth and attains to Heaven and this also 59 Text| inadequate to define thine attributes, since they surpass mind 60 Text| deemed worthy of greater audience. I do not speak of rnen 61 Text| containing thy bounties, augment our capacity and in this 62 Text| God-receiving body, the saving balsam for our race and the boast 63 Text| namely, that they who were barren from youth would beget in 64 Text| and proceeded from her, bearing flesh . He appeared upon 65 Text| from without-like savage beasts. Measure out thy succor 66 | becomes 67 | beforehand 68 Text| barren from youth would beget in deep old age her that 69 Text| by those who marvelously begot her to return her that was 70 Text| Him that was timelessly begotten of God the Father before 71 Text| abundant tribute in our behalf. If a man looks towards 72 Text| 12). Jacob the patriarch, beholding this throne by way of types ( 73 Text| earth, the joy of celestial beings, the adornment of all creation. 74 Text| she shall never cease from benefacting all creation, and I mean 75 Text| ascended into Heaven when bereaved of things here below, a 76 | beside 77 Text| 45:5). ~If recompense is bestowed according to the measure 78 Text| among those things that bind by obligation and love and 79 Text| transforming it into a blessing. The King of all "hath desired 80 Text| sublime and the supremely blest Queen of a blessed race. ~ 81 Text| balsam for our race and the boast of all creation; but they 82 Text| abundant grace to our souls and bodies, s fficient for every necessity. 83 Text| glorified together with what was born of it with God-befitting 84 Text| incapable of containing thy bounties, augment our capacity and 85 Text| foretold (Ps. 44:11) and, "He bowed the heavens and came down" ( 86 Text| forth as a universal mixing bowl of all divine, angelic and 87 Text| whence she flashes forth most brilliant and divine illuminations 88 Text| combines, and these she alone brings to fulfillment and surpasses. 89 Text| grace, he shall straightaway call the Virgin a heaven. The 90 Text| the choir of cherubim and called it "high" and "exalted" ( 91 Text| am obliged by the sacred canons, to bring to your God-loving 92 Text| abode. From thence thou ever carest diligently for thine inheritance 93 Text| in the earth, as was the case with her Son and God, and 94 Text| together with Him. She is the cause of what came before her, 95 Text| the ages, she shall never cease from benefacting all creation, 96 Text| gifts upon us and never ceases to provide a profitable 97 Text| Mother of God! Even so we celebrate today her holy dormition 98 Text| memory of the just man is celebrated with songs of praise" (Prov. 99 Text| psalmic prophecy says con- cerning her. By "vesture wrought 100 Text| what came before her, the champion of what came after her and 101 Text| Mother of God strangely changed her dwelling from the house 102 Text| speech. Yet it is meet to chant hymns of praise to thee, 103 Text| defended. They labored and chanted together to their uttermost 104 Text| fashion my homily for your charity. It is not only that I wish, 105 Text| overshadowed the sublimely chaste and virginal womb, separated 106 Text| throne amidst the choir of cherubim and called it "high" and " 107 Text| nature, and by her ineffable childbirth-the Queen of all creation, both 108 Text| flow of generations and circumstances journeys to the destination 109 Text| might: mollify our fellow citizens one with another and scatter 110 Text| ineffable touch and union cleansed us entirely. Therefore, 111 Text| To the degree that she is closer to God than all those who 112 Text| right of the King of all clothed in a vesture wrought with 113 Text| of linen and the burial clothes afford the apostles a demonstration 114 Text| nor through tempest and cloud, as with Elias the prophet, 115 Text| ineffable birth? For, as she co-operated and suffered with that exalting 116 Text| companion but she also stands at Cod's right hand, for where 117 Text| both angels and men, she combines, and these she alone brings 118 Text| herself both a support and a comfort while she was both heard 119 Text| of her, saying: "I shall commemorate thy name in every generation 120 Text| and immortal life and its commemoration is a joyful event and festivity 121 Text| today fittingly gather and commune for the festival. ~It was 122 Text| not an overshadowing but a complete union. Since what overshadows 123 Text| mankind of those hymned, to compose a song of praise and all 124 Text| the Mother of God in hymns composed according to our abilities. ~ 125 Text| difference in position? From this comprehend also the difference in the 126 Text| the psalmic prophecy says con- cerning her. By "vesture 127 Text| How could such a thing be conceivable for anyone who thinks reasonably'? 128 Text| assisted at the conception) conceived the Divine Fire without 129 Text| archangel also assisted at the conception) conceived the Divine Fire 130 Text| Isaiah 6:2); but David says concerning her, "at Thy right hand 131 Text| a man looks towards this concurrence and dispensing of every 132 Text| from God which overturn the condemnation of Eve and Adam and remedy 133 Text| suffered with that exalting condescension (kenosis) of the Word of 134 Text| dispensed; and what could confine that wealth which wanes 135 Text| whereas the inexorable duty constrains me, though speech cannot 136 Text| Divine Fire without being consumed, Him that taketh away the 137 Text| things; she is the summit and consummation of everything holy. O divine, 138 Text| through her all may now contain it, for she dispenses it 139 Text| It was meet that she who contained Him that fills all things 140 Text| all the sacred apostles conveyed from every nation, the God-revealing 141 Text| indeed could that body suffer corruption and turn to earth? How could 142 Text| exceeding strong. I will count them and they shall be multiplied 143 Text| that throughout the whole course of the ages, she shall never 144 Text| most mystical economy of courtship came to pass as regards 145 Text| pre-eminence as regards all creatures. Thus all things today fittingly 146 Text| and Adam and remedy the curse laid on them, transforming 147 Text| dwelt in her. Not through darkness and fire, as with Moses 148 Text| she might prove to be his daughter, that she yielded a little 149 Text| according to Solomon, "many daughters have attained wealth, many 150 Text| from the dead on the third day. The strips of linen and 151 Text| intangible things, to satisfy the debt with words and to offer 152 Text| from youth would beget in deep old age her that would bring 153 Text| opposing, defending, being defended. They labored and chanted 154 Text| after, assisting, opposing, defending, being defended. They labored 155 Text| touch God, that Nature which defies touch, for he did not see 156 Text| words are inadequate to define thine attributes, since 157 Text| made earth heavenly, she deified the human race, and she 158 Text| earth and lived among men, deifying our nature and granting 159 Text| necessity for her body to delay yet a little while in the 160 Text| clothes afford the apostles a demonstration of the Theotokos' resurrection 161 Text| for Him; hence thou didst depart by way of death to immortality 162 Text| radiant than heaven. ~Who can describe in words thy divinely resplendent 163 Text| partook of more excellent deserts and of superior power, and 164 Text| blessing. The King of all "hath desired a mystic beauty" of the 165 Text| circumstances journeys to the destination of that new mystery wrought 166 Text| like differing voices from different generations made harmonious 167 Text| musical instrument or like differing voices from different generations 168 Text| thence thou ever carest diligently for thine inheritance and 169 Text| above, addressed to her, and disclosures and salutations from God 170 Text| thine inheritance, O Lady! Dispel the perils which menace 171 Text| so that the riches may be dispensed; and what could confine 172 Text| now contain it, for she dispenses it according to the power 173 Text| towards this concurrence and dispensing of every good, he will say 174 Text| when He made the world He distributed to each thing and thereby 175 Text| with a most valiant and diverse asceticism, and with her 176 Text| Whose hands she rendered her divinely-minded spirit, through which and 177 Text| Lamp truly radiant with divinity, even as the Prophet says, " 178 Text| was translated into the domain of celestial and endless 179 Text| celebrate today her holy dormition or translation to another 180 Text| more translucent, and thou dost exalt it straightway to 181 Text| wrought valiantly; but she doth exceed, she hath surpassed 182 Text| Mother of God. The desire is double, not single, since it induces 183 Text| than all those who have drawn nigh unto Him, by so much 184 Text| types (enigmata), said, "How dreadful is this Place! This is none 185 Text| not multiply that honor due to His Mother over and above 186 Text| proper, so that thou mightest dwell with Him eternally in a 187 Text| immortal after death and alone dwells together with her Son and 188 Text| enhypostatic Power of the Most High dwelt in her. Not through darkness 189 Text| bring to your God-loving ears a saving word and thus to 190 Text| heavenly rather than things earthly, she partook of more excellent 191 Text| nourishment, a most mystical economy of courtship came to pass 192 Text| tempest and cloud, as with Elias the prophet, did He manifest 193 Text| without her mediation, every emanation of illuminating divine light, 194 Text| the supreme beauty which embellished both worlds. By her ascension 195 Text| superior to them in the eminence of her dignity. Those things 196 Text| were, by the mighty deeds enacted with respect to Him, and 197 Text| understand her to be the enclosure of the Uncontainable One, 198 Text| Pet. 1:12). This is the encomium which transcends nature 199 Text| high with those below, and encompassing all with the wondrous deed 200 Text| world, her precepts and encouragements which she gave to God's 201 | end 202 Text| overshadowed her, or rather, the enhypostatic Power of the Most High dwelt 203 Text| throne by way of types (enigmata), said, "How dreadful is 204 Text| the care of an angel she enjoyed ineffable nourishment such 205 Text| body, glorified by God, now enjoys the celestial realm together 206 Text| touch and union cleansed us entirely. Therefore, she only is 207 Text| single, since it induces me, entreats and persuades me, whereas 208 Text| and the agent of things eternal. She is the substance of 209 Text| mightest dwell with Him eternally in a super-celestial abode. 210 Text| overturn the condemnation of Eve and Adam and remedy the 211 Text| commemoration is a joyful event and festivity for the entire 212 Text| only-begotten Son of God, the ever-flowing Wellspring of grace, but 213 Text| the Godhead. For it is an everlasting ordinance in the heavens 214 | everything 215 Text| translucent, and thou dost exalt it straightway to the Divine. 216 Text| co-operated and suffered with that exalting condescension (kenosis) 217 Text| principalities are made exceeding strong. I will count them 218 Text| as David says, "But to me exceedingly honorable are Thy friends, 219 Text| has been allotted so m uch exceeds in holiness the portion 220 Text| ages in order to reach such excellency, and that which all those 221 | except 222 Text| See how greatly we are expended by our own and by aliens, 223 Text| Isaiah 6:1), wishing to make explicit how the station of the Mother 224 Text| heavenly, Virgin, how can I express all things which pertain 225 Text| the L,ord from His Place" (Ezek. 3:12). Jacob the patriarch, 226 Text| the Song of Songs, "How fair is my companion" (cf. Song 227 Text| generations made harmonious in one faith through the Ever-Virgin, 228 Text| at and hymned by all the faithful . Willing to set up an image 229 Text| immaculate one, he would not have fallen away from life, even though 230 Text| station of the Mother of God far trancer Is that of the celestial 231 Text| Both love and duty today fashion my homily for your charity. 232 Text| both angels and men, God fashioned a being supremely good and 233 Text| have been allotted divine favor and glory and power, as 234 Text| body -the dwelling more favored than Heaven and the Heaven 235 Text| by thy might: mollify our fellow citizens one with another 236 Text| gather and commune for the festival. ~It was meet that she who 237 Text| commemoration is a joyful event and festivity for the entire world. It 238 | few 239 Text| our souls and bodies, s fficient for every necessity. And 240 Text| produce its own form and figure in whatever is overshadowed, 241 Text| all-pervading fulness of Him that filleth all things, and through 242 Text| she who contained Him that fills all things and who surpasses 243 Text| principle of the apostles, the firm foundation of the martyrs 244 | first 245 Text| life, even as was and is fitting. In truth, many have been 246 Text| creatures. Thus all things today fittingly gather and commune for the 247 Text| the eye is unable to look fixedly upon the sun. One cannot 248 Text| super-celestial realm, from whence she flashes forth most brilliant and 249 Text| Ever-Virgin Mother of God. The flow of generations and circumstances 250 Text| light, more arrayed with flowers than the divine gardens, 251 Text| about her, going on before, following after, assisting, opposing, 252 Text| miracles are wrought to foreshow that future Marvel of the 253 Text| the Ever-Virgin, as David foretold (Ps. 44:11) and, "He bowed 254 Text| grave and death did not hold forever her life-originating and 255 Text| union only, but further, a formation, and that thing formed from 256 Text| formation, and that thing formed from the Power of the Most 257 | formerly 258 Text| that being both saved and fortified by thy grace, we may glorify 259 Text| of the apostles, the firm foundation of the martyrs and the premise 260 Text| exceedingly honorable are Thy friends, O Lord, their principalities 261 Text| Therefore, she only is the frontier between created and uncreated 262 Text| and to offer up the first fruits of our love for the Mother 263 Text| could He that descended to fulfill the Law not multiply that 264 Text| these she alone brings to fulfillment and surpasses. And this 265 | further 266 Text| flowers than the divine gardens, more adorned than the whole 267 Text| of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven" (Gen. 28:17). 268 Text| all things today fittingly gather and commune for the festival. ~ 269 Text| adds thereto the strange gathering at her all-sacred burial 270 Text| is the Gate of Heaven" (Gen. 28:17). But David, joining 271 Text| Therefore shall peoples give praise unto thee for ever, 272 Text| her that was given to the Giver; so accordingly the Mother 273 Text| the angels themselves as glorifying the God come from her, saying, " 274 Text| nature and the surpassingly glorious glory of the Ever-Virgin, 275 Text| what was born of it with God-befitting glory, and the "ark of holiness" ( 276 Text| canons, to bring to your God-loving ears a saving word and thus 277 Text| conveyed from every nation, the God-revealing hymns of these God-possessed 278 Text| fire, as with Moses the God-seer, nor through tempest and 279 Text| liturgy round about her, going on before, following after, 280 Text| is a receptacle of great graces-and she grants us even our ability 281 Text| deifying our nature and granting us, after the words of the 282 Text| of great graces-and she grants us even our ability to look 283 Text| her Son. For, earth and grave and death did not hold forever 284 Text| which menace us. See how greatly we are expended by our own 285 Text| regards the Virgin, a strange greeting surpassing speech which 286 Text| was present, into Whose hands she rendered her divinely-minded 287 Text| different generations made harmonious in one faith through the 288 Text| she also takes her stand, having ascended now from earth 289 Text| Measure out thy succor and healing in proportion to our passions, 290 Text| comfort while she was both heard and seen, and while she 291 Text| right hand of majesty" (Heb. 1:3), there too she also 292 Text| grace upon those who honor her-for she is a receptacle of great 293 Text| which she gave to God's heralds sent throughout the whole 294 | here 295 Text| but also of the angelic hierarchies themselves. Isaiah writes 296 Text| has ascended incomparably higher than the angels and the 297 Text| grave and death did not hold forever her life-originating 298 Text| praises the memory of the holiest of the saints, she by whom 299 Text| and duty today fashion my homily for your charity. It is 300 Text| Uncontainable One, and as many as hymn God praise her together 301 Text| beautiful, the tablet and living icon of every good and all uprightness, 302 Text| mediation, every emanation of illuminating divine light, every revelation 303 Text| most brilliant and divine illuminations and graces, irradiating 304 Text| faithful . Willing to set up an image of all goodness and beauty 305 Text| indeed if he had, like this immaculate one, he would not have fallen 306 Text| heavenly hosts, whose nature is immaterial and transcendent. Isaiah 307 Text| depart by way of death to immortality and art translated from 308 Text| possessing that super- celestial in-dwelling, she seemed not to bear 309 Text| Thoughts and words are inadequate to define thine attributes, 310 Text| And although we may prove incapable of containing thy bounties, 311 Text| thereto the supernatural increase of mighty deeds. And after 312 Text| double, not single, since it induces me, entreats and persuades 313 Text| that came forth from Her ineffably without a father in this 314 Text| Indeed, the steward of those inexhaustible treasuries watches over 315 Text| persuades me, whereas the inexorable duty constrains me, though 316 Text| dwelling in the Theotokos in an inexpressible manner and proceeded from 317 Text| house of God while still an infant . She passed not a few years 318 Text| in the heavens that the inferior partake of what lies beyond 319 Text| the strings of a musical instrument or like differing voices 320 Text| both to leave untouched intangible things, to satisfy the debt 321 Text| the Divine. The eye of the intelfect is through thee made limpid, 322 Text| and by thine unsleeping intercessions with Him, thou showest mercy 323 Text| this reason the Prophet introduces the angels themselves as 324 Text| illuminations and graces, irradiating earth's region; thus she 325 Text| His Place" (Ezek. 3:12). Jacob the patriarch, beholding 326 Text| opposed with a secret hand the Jews who rose up against and 327 Text| to the supremely virtuous Joachim and Anna of what was to 328 Text| Gen. 28:17). But David, joining himself to the multitude 329 Text| generations and circumstances journeys to the destination of that 330 Text| of those upon earth, the joy of celestial beings, the 331 Text| and its commemoration is a joyful event and festivity for 332 Text| and this, not in order to keep them for thyself, but so 333 Text| memory sanctifies whoever keeps it, and a mere movement 334 Text| exalting condescension (kenosis) of the Word of God, she 335 Text| alone among women gave birth knowing no spouse, so that the love 336 Text| Blessed be the glory of the L,ord from His Place" (Ezek. 337 Text| this thine inheritance, O Lady! Dispel the perils which 338 Text| Adam and remedy the curse laid on them, transforming it 339 Text| illumined through her, that Lamp truly radiant with divinity, 340 | last 341 Text| Because of her goodness she lavishes sublime gifts upon us and 342 Text| other, according to the very laws of nature, but she is truly 343 Text| and all at once both to leave untouched intangible things, 344 Text| Gospel. In such wise she led a most strenuous manner 345 Text| inferior partake of what lies beyond being, by the mediation 346 Text| those who venerated that life- originating and God-receiving 347 Text| of the Theotokos was also life-bearing, translating her into a 348 Text| unoriginate Father and the life-creating Spirit, now and ever and 349 Text| did not hold forever her life-originating and God-receiving body - 350 Text| all before this time, so likewise in the endless age to come, 351 Text| intelfect is through thee made limpid, and through thee the spirit 352 Text| third day. The strips of linen and the burial clothes afford 353 Text| coal touched the prophetic lips and purified them (cf. Isaiah 354 Text| angels, and their choir, and liturgy round about her, going on 355 Text| beautiful, the tablet and living icon of every good and all 356 Text| in our behalf. If a man looks towards this concurrence 357 Text| God, and if the man who loves the Son is loved of Him 358 Text| nature possesses all those (lualities which were added to her 359 Text| she has been allotted so m uch exceeds in holiness 360 Text| yet this only served to magnify her pre-eminence as regards 361 Text| is, at the "right hand of majesty" (Heb. 1:3), there too she 362 | makes 363 Text| Wellspring of grace, but also manifested His Body by way of birth, 364 Text| the firm foundation of the martyrs and the premise of the teachers 365 Text| to foreshow that future Marvel of the whole world, the 366 Text| thus she is worshipped and marvelled at and hymned by all the 367 Text| vow was given by those who marvelously begot her to return her 368 Text| regards her body by such great marvels, how indeed could that body 369 Text| mediation, but with tongs, by means of which the coal touched 370 Text| Ever-Virgin, sounds a most melodic strain in praise of her, 371 Text| Dispel the perils which menace us. See how greatly we are 372 Text| whoever keeps it, and a mere movement towards thee makes 373 Text| Prophet says, "God is in the midst of her, she shall not be 374 Text| prophets pronounce prophecies, miracles are wrought to foreshow 375 Text| her forth as a universal mixing bowl of all divine, angelic 376 Text| Uplift all by thy might: mollify our fellow citizens one 377 | moreover 378 Text| is said, referring to her mortality, yet this only served to 379 Text| whoever keeps it, and a mere movement towards thee makes the mind 380 Text| count them and they shall be multiplied more than the sand" (Ps. 381 Text| descended to fulfill the Law not multiply that honor due to His Mother 382 Text| joining himself to the multitude of the saved, who are like 383 Text| are like the strings of a musical instrument or like differing 384 Text| every revelation of the mysteries of the Godhead, every form 385 Text| destination of that new mystery wrought in her; the statutes 386 Text| King of all "hath desired a mystic beauty" of the Ever-Virgin, 387 Text| unutterable nourishment, a most mystical economy of courtship came 388 Text| place of Both, and They mystically abide and walk in him, as 389 Text| I shall commemorate thy name in every generation and 390 | namely 391 Text| obligation and love and can be narrated with praise for the Church, 392 Text| apostles conveyed from every nation, the God-revealing hymns 393 Text| the only Queen of all is near beside Him. She is both 394 | neither 395 Text| the destination of that new mystery wrought in her; 396 Text| all those who have drawn nigh unto Him, by so much has 397 | none 398 | nothing 399 Text| saving word and thus to nourish your souls, but if there 400 Text| showing while on earth an obedience to things heavenly rather 401 Text| those things that bind by obligation and love and can be narrated 402 Text| for you, and because I am obliged by the sacred canons, to 403 Text| resurrected, after the prophetic ode, together with Christ Who 404 Text| the debt with words and to offer up the first fruits of our 405 Text| youth would beget in deep old age her that would bring 406 | once 407 Text| hymns of these God-possessed ones, and the solicitous presence 408 Text| they strove against and opposed with a secret hand the Jews 409 Text| following after, assisting, opposing, defending, being defended. 410 Text| Blessed be the glory of the L,ord from His Place" (Ezek. 3: 411 Text| For it is an everlasting ordinance in the heavens that the 412 Text| Mother over and above the ordinances of the Law? ~Hence, as it 413 Text| superior power, and from the ordination which she received from 414 Text| who venerated that life- originating and God-receiving body, 415 Text| Prov. 10:7). How much more ought we to honor with great praises 416 | out 417 Text| who surpasses all should outstrip all and become by her virtue 418 Text| she is the treasury and overseer of the riches of the Godhead. 419 Text| supra-sensible: this was not an overshadowing but a complete union. Since 420 Text| complete union. Since what overshadows is always wont to produce 421 Text| salutations from God which overturn the condemnation of Eve 422 Text| the love of Him that had partaken of her flesh might be shared 423 Text| than things earthly, she partook of more excellent deserts 424 Text| while still an infant . She passed not a few years in the Holy 425 Text| healing in proportion to our passions, apportioning abundant grace 426 Text| Mother, and not only in times past, but "for ever, and unto 427 Text| Ezek. 3:12). Jacob the patriarch, beholding this throne by 428 Text| thy graces upon all thy people, this thine inheritance, 429 Text| generation. Therefore shall peoples give praise unto thee for 430 Text| virtuously, what the sun is for perceptible light and those who live 431 Text| after she became supremely perfect even as regards her body 432 Text| inheritance, O Lady! Dispel the perils which menace us. See how 433 Text| induces me, entreats and persuades me, whereas the inexorable 434 Text| express all things which pertain to thee? How can I glorify 435 Text| desire to look into" (1 Pet. 1:12). This is the encomium 436 Text| exceeds in holiness the portion of those who are divinely 437 Text| you see the difference in position? From this comprehend also 438 Text| the Sun which by nature possesses all those (lualities which 439 Text| years of age and not yet possessing that super- celestial in-dwelling, 440 Text| body. For this reason she pours forth from thence abundant 441 Text| is both wondered at and praised by God Himself, proclaiming 442 Text| asceticism, and with her prayers and care for the entire 443 Text| only served to magnify her pre-eminence as regards all creatures. 444 Text| rest in every way for the preaching of the Gospel. In such wise 445 Text| for the entire world, her precepts and encouragements which 446 Text| foundation of the martyrs and the premise of the teachers of the Church . 447 Text| of the Ever-Virgin, was present, into Whose hands she rendered 448 Text| Thy friends, O Lord, their principalities are made exceeding strong. 449 Text| substance of the prophets, the principle of the apostles, the firm 450 Text| inexpressible manner and proceeded from her, bearing flesh . 451 Text| strenuous manner of life proclaimed in mind and speech. ~Therefore, 452 Text| praised by God Himself, proclaiming her, as it were, by the 453 Text| overshadows is always wont to produce its own form and figure 454 Text| never ceases to provide a profitable and abundant tribute in 455 Text| the God-possessed prophets pronounce prophecies, miracles are 456 Text| from earth to Heaven, as is proper, so that thou mightest dwell 457 Text| God-possessed prophets pronounce prophecies, miracles are wrought to 458 Text| Ps. 44:9), as the psalmic prophecy says con- cerning her. By " 459 Text| angels" (Ps. 8:6), by her proximity to the God of all, and in 460 Text| cf. Ps. 44:9), as the psalmic prophecy says con- cerning 461 Text| touched the prophetic lips and purified them (cf. Isaiah 6:6-7). 462 Text| and to the degree of the purity of each. Hence she is the 463 Text| who live in it. But if he raises the eye of his mind to the 464 Text| throughout the ages in order to reach such excellency, and that 465 Text| conceivable for anyone who thinks reasonably'? Hence, the body which 466 Text| hast been deemed worthy to receive the fulness of every gift 467 Text| who honor her-for she is a receptacle of great graces-and she 468 Text| be shaken'(Ps. 45:5). ~If recompense is bestowed according to 469 Text| Ps. 8:6), as it is said, referring to her mortality, yet this 470 Text| themselves. Isaiah writes with regard to the supreme commanders 471 Text| graces, irradiating earth's region; thus she is worshipped 472 Text| be angelic. But who can relate those things which came 473 Text| from the dead, since they remained alone in the tomb and at 474 Text| condemnation of Eve and Adam and remedy the curse laid on them, 475 Text| present, into Whose hands she rendered her divinely-minded spirit, 476 Text| entire world. It not merely renews the memory of the wondrous 477 Text| mightest make created nature replete with grace. Indeed, the 478 Text| describe in words thy divinely resplendent beauty, O Virgin Mother 479 Text| while she labored with the rest in every way for the preaching 480 Text| holiness" (Ps. 131:8) is resurrected, after the prophetic ode, 481 Text| demonstration of the Theotokos' resurrection from the dead, since they 482 Text| illuminating divine light, every revelation of the mysteries of the 483 Text| wealth which wanes not? Richly, therefore, bestow thy mercy 484 Text| If, then, "death of the righteous man is honorable" (cf. Ps. 485 Text| Word of God, she was also rightly glorified and exalted together 486 Text| was incarnate of her, she rivaled, as it were, those great 487 Text| audience. I do not speak of rnen alone, but also of the angelic 488 Text| All the while the Lord Sabaoth Himself, the Son of the 489 Text| found beyond them. For her sake the God-possessed prophets 490 Text| incarnate of thee for our sakes, together with His unoriginate 491 Text| her, and disclosures and salutations from God which overturn 492 Text| glory? Merely thy memory sanctifies whoever keeps it, and a 493 Text| multiplied more than the sand" (Ps. 138:17). And according 494 Text| right hand, for where Christ sat in the heavens, that is, 495 Text| untouched intangible things, to satisfy the debt with words and 496 Text| assault us from without-like savage beasts. Measure out thy 497 Text| vision of Isaiah when he saw the bush aflame with fire, 498 Text| citizens one with another and scatter those who assault us from 499 Text| tomb and at the apostles' scrutiny they were found there, even 500 Text| against and opposed with a secret hand the Jews who rose up


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