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501 Text|              would bring forth without seed Him that was timelessly
502     | seemed
503 Text|                nor aether nor anything sensible, nor anything supra-sensible:
504 Text|              she gave to God's heralds sent throughout the whole world;
505 Text|              chaste and virginal womb, separated by nothing, neither air
506 Text|               those graced of God have separately, both angels and men, she
507 Text|               mortality, yet this only served to magnify her pre-eminence
508 Text|               of her, she shall not be shaken'(Ps. 45:5). ~If recompense
509 Text|         partaken of her flesh might be shared with her twofold. And who
510 Text|               rather one might say, He showed her forth as a universal
511 Text|           intercessions with Him, thou showest mercy to all. ~To the degree
512 Text|              her through herself, and, showing while on earth an obedience
513 Text|             she alone of all women was shown forth to be a mother by
514 Text|               and transcendent. Isaiah shows us clearly that it is only
515 Text|              The desire is double, not single, since it induces me, entreats
516 Text|               Him that taketh away the sins of the world, Who through
517 Text|          Throne, and wherever the King sits, there His Throne is set
518 Text|                man is illumined by the sojourning of the Spirit of God, since
519 Text|            God-possessed ones, and the solicitous presence of the angels,
520 Text|              138:17). And according to Solomon, "many daughters have attained
521 Text|                Son of Man and made men sons of God; she made earth heavenly,
522 Text|            heavens. If, therefore, her soul, which was an abode of God'
523 Text|               through the Ever-Virgin, sounds a most melodic strain in
524 Text|               is the beginning and the source and root of unutterable
525 Text|             greater audience. I do not speak of rnen alone, but also
526 Text|             the Godhead, every form of spiritual gift, will exceed the capacity
527 Text|            women gave birth knowing no spouse, so that the love of Him
528 Text|           there too she also takes her stand, having ascended now from
529 Text|            mystery wrought in her; the statutes of the Spirit provide beforehand
530     | still
531 Text|              nature by grace, he shall straightaway call the Virgin a heaven.
532 Text|     Ever-Virgin, sounds a most melodic strain in praise of her, saying: "
533 Text|          accordingly the Mother of God strangely changed her dwelling from
534 Text|               such wise she led a most strenuous manner of life proclaimed
535 Text|                saved, who are like the strings of a musical instrument
536 Text|             dead on the third day. The strips of linen and the burial
537 Text|      principalities are made exceeding strong. I will count them and they
538 Text|              of all creation; but they strove against and opposed with
539 Text|             Most High overshadowed the sublimely chaste and virginal womb,
540 Text|             things eternal. She is the substance of the prophets, the principle
541 Text|              such as even Adam did not succeed in tasting; for indeed if
542 Text|                beasts. Measure out thy succor and healing in proportion
543 Text|             how indeed could that body suffer corruption and turn to earth?
544 Text|                 as she co-operated and suffered with that exalting condescension (
545 Text|                which all mind and word suffice not, though they be angelic.
546 Text|            dignity. Those things which sufficed the most excellent among
547 Text|                is meet, Heaven being a suitable place for her. She "stands
548 Text|                good things; she is the summit and consummation of everything
549 Text|                not yet possessing that super- celestial in-dwelling, she
550 Text|                ever adding thereto the supernatural increase of mighty deeds.
551 Text|            thus she was herself both a support and a comfort while she
552 Text|        anything sensible, nor anything supra-sensible: this was not an overshadowing
553 Text|              she doth exceed, she hath surpassed all, both men and women" (
554 Text|              transcends nature and the surpassingly glorious glory of the Ever-Virgin,
555 Text|                didst become a wondrous tabernacle for Him; hence thou didst
556 Text|                good and beautiful, the tablet and living icon of every
557 Text|               did not see the seraphim take the coal from the altar
558 Text|               1:3), there too she also takes her stand, having ascended
559 Text|               being consumed, Him that taketh away the sins of the world,
560 Text|                Adam did not succeed in tasting; for indeed if he had, like
561 Text|         martyrs and the premise of the teachers of the Church . She is the
562 Text|              the God-seer, nor through tempest and cloud, as with Elias
563 Text|            Queen of all creation, both terrestial and celestial. Thus she
564 Text|            with hand and will set upon theomachy. All the while the Lord
565     | thereby
566     | therein
567 Text|             conceivable for anyone who thinks reasonably'? Hence, the
568 Text|             arose from the dead on the third day. The strips of linen
569 Text|                O Virgin Mother of God? Thoughts and words are inadequate
570 Text|               Heaven? Or, if while yet three years of age and not yet
571 Text|              in order to keep them for thyself, but so that thou mightest
572 Text|              without seed Him that was timelessly begotten of God the Father
573 Text|                Mother, and not only in times past, but "for ever, and
574     | too
575 Text|              God. Thus the Word of God took up His dwelling in the Theotokos
576 Text|               of the Mother of God far trancer Is that of the celestial
577 Text|               nature is immaterial and transcendent. Isaiah shows us clearly
578 Text|           nature and the Mother of God transcending every law of nature, and
579 Text|             This is the encomium which transcends nature and the surpassingly
580 Text|                the curse laid on them, transforming it into a blessing. The
581 Text|       Theotokos was also life-bearing, translating her into a celestial and
582 Text|            today her holy dormition or translation to another life, whereby,
583 Text|               thee makes the mind more translucent, and thou dost exalt it
584 Text|                profitable and abundant tribute in our behalf. If a man
585 Text|             body suffer corruption and turn to earth? How could such
586 Text|               might be shared with her twofold. And who will the only-begotten
587 Text|             she has been allotted so m uch exceeds in holiness the
588 Text|       surpasses it, just as the eye is unable to look fixedly upon the
589 Text|             bush aflame with fire, yet unconsumed. And who does not know that
590 Text|                be the enclosure of the Uncontainable One, and as many as hymn
591 Text|           frontier between created and uncreated nature, and there is no
592 Text|               He showed her forth as a universal mixing bowl of all divine,
593 Text|               sakes, together with His unoriginate Father and the life-creating
594 Text|              in her all good, seen and unseen, which when He made the
595 Text|               inheritance and by thine unsleeping intercessions with Him,
596 Text|              all at once both to leave untouched intangible things, to satisfy
597 Text|           without and by those within. Uplift all by thy might: mollify
598 Text|             icon of every good and all uprightness, since thou alone hast been
599 Text|               upon the sun. One cannot utter things which surpass speech,
600 Text|              chanted together to their uttermost with those who venerated
601 Text|              were her own, with a most valiant and diverse asceticism,
602 Text|              wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but she doth exceed, she
603 Text|              of divine gifts and their vault, and this, not in order
604 Text|           without mediation, without a veil, the Power of the Most High
605 Text|               uttermost with those who venerated that life- originating and
606 Text|                to thee, for thou art a vessel containing every grace,
607 Text|          annunciation to the supremely virtuous Joachim and Anna of what
608 Text|              virtue and those who live virtuously, what the sun is for perceptible
609 Text|          adorned than the whole world, visible and invisible. She is not
610 Text|                the tongs of that great vision of Isaiah when he saw the
611 Text|           instrument or like differing voices from different generations
612 Text|              Father before the ages. A vow was given by those who marvelously
613 Text|              They mystically abide and walk in him, as it is recorded
614 Text|              confine that wealth which wanes not? Richly, therefore,
615 Text|               inexhaustible treasuries watches over them so that the riches
616 Text|               of God, the ever-flowing Wellspring of grace, but also manifested
617     | whatever
618     | whence
619     | where
620     | whereas
621     | whereby
622     | wherein
623     | wherever
624     | whither
625     | whoever
626 Text|           hymned by all the faithful . Willing to set up an image of all
627 Text|       preaching of the Gospel. In such wise she led a most strenuous
628 Text|         charity. It is not only that I wish, because of my love for
629 Text|                 exalted" (Isaiah 6:1), wishing to make explicit how the
630 Text|              those who assault us from without-like savage beasts. Measure out
631 Text|                beside Him. She is both wondered at and praised by God Himself,
632 Text|              and root, of those divine wonders and deeds is the annunciation
633 Text|             what overshadows is always wont to produce its own form
634 Text|                as it were, those great works, surpassing mind and speech,
635 Text|          beauty which embellished both worlds. By her ascension now from
636 Text|            earth's region; thus she is worshipped and marvelled at and hymned
637 Text|         hierarchies themselves. Isaiah writes with regard to the supreme
638 Text|             the beginning of time were written down and accomplished with
639 Text|              be his daughter, that she yielded a little to nature, as did
640 Text|              they who were barren from youth would beget in deep old