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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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