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1002 VII |                 away thine iniquities, and thoroughly purge thy sins. In thee,
1003 XI  |                speaking of that cry of the Thrice-Holy, uttered by the heavenly
1004     | throughout
1005 VI  |                announced to him the joyful tidings, and before he reached the
1006 Note|                theme is addressed not in a tone of triumphant anti-Semitism,
1007 Note|                  by modern scholars, it is traditionally ascribed to St. Methodius
1008 Note|                    s mind, however, is the tragedy of Israel's rejection of
1009 IX  |                    the command, although a tragic occurrence happened on his
1010 IV  |                    a lofty throne, and one transcending the nature of man, the Monarch
1011 I   |                    of this holy virgin far transcends all words of mine. Wherefore,
1012 XII |                  words of good omen, quite transformed with gladness of heart,
1013 III |                 under the sun: "Before she travailed," he says, "she brought
1014 XIII|               kingdom, and that you should tread upon the necks of your enemies.
1015 VI  |                   led on, and in his haste treading the air with his steps,
1016 I   |                       The Oration likewise treats of the Holy Mother of God.~ ~ ~ ~
1017 V   |                approach with reverence and trembling to do honour to the sacred
1018 V   |                                        V.  Tremendous, verily, is the mystery
1019 II  |                Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." [2 Cor 5:19]
1020 IX  |           spiritual laudation mere secular trifling, or the shoutings of a false
1021 XIII|                     who was by the serpent tripped up. ~For the Lord laid not
1022 Note|                 addressed not in a tone of triumphant anti-Semitism, it seems
1023 VI  |           foundations of the earth sound a trumpet-blast to those in Hades, for the
1024 II  |              against that mirror of thine, truthful prophet as thou art, thou
1025 XI  |                peaceful discharge from the tutorship of the law; for in truth
1026 IV  |                    of the ark, between the typical cherubim, as He says to
1027 V   |                 ark of the covenant, which typified thee, that the truth might
1028 V   |              chased away; the power of the tyrant has been broken, death hath
1029 I   |                    and boasting in our own unalterable defeat, let us join the
1030 XII |               reward of the Jews for their unbelief, which caused them to refuse
1031 XIV |                  virgin mother of God, our unceasing joy, for unto thee do I
1032 XIV |                honours, that thou wouldest unceasingly keep us in remembrance.
1033 VIII|                  only begotten Son, who is unchangeably like to Thee, and of one
1034 IX  |                   was changed day by day), unchanged, and keeping fresh for ages. ~"
1035 IX  |                  types of thee, hard to be understood, he delayed [Ex. 32:1] longer
1036 III |             virginity of His natural unity undivided and inseparable; and who
1037 XI  |            discourse, directing our course unerringly with reference to our prescribed
1038 VII |                  the most illustrious, the unfailing treasure, and those riches
1039 II  |               greatest of prophets, wisely unfold to the Church the mysteries
1040 XI  |                    not be found altogether unfruitful and unprofitable as to what
1041 XII |                  to the casting out of the ungrateful synagogue. Her very name
1042 III |              mother's purity uncorrupt and uninjured -- Him, in short, who in
1043 III |              bridegroom, by an inalienable union, and preserved his mother'
1044 IX  |               manifested in thee; now with unleavened meal, in type responding
1045 IX  |                    hath none end, high and unmeasurable. For verily, verily, this
1046 VIII|                   received from Thee a joy unmixed with pain. Do thou, O Lord,
1047 III |                  that that parturition was unpolluted, and stood not in need of
1048 XI  |                  altogether unfruitful and unprofitable as to what is required of
1049 VII |                    unspeakable might, that unsearchable power, which can alone support
1050 VI  |              nothing, and gave to what was unstable a firm coherence; as the
1051 VII |                    around thee through the unsullied mirror of the flesh. Fear
1052     | until
1053 I   |             without any covering, and with unveiled face, we see, as in a mirror,
1054 X   |                   embraces all things; the upholder of Him who upholds all things
1055 X   |                    the upholder of Him who upholds all things by His word;
1056 III |                  of thanksgiving, we shall usefully inquire what cause aroused
1057 IX  |           habitation of God, are no merely useless and ornamental words. Nor,
1058 XI  |                    cry of the Thrice-Holy, uttered by the heavenly seraphs.
1059 V   |                                            V.  Tremendous, verily, is
1060 I   |             festival, not according to the vain customs of the Greek mythology;
1061 X   |              giving it the rein with these varied illustrations, and that
1062 VI  |            righteousness, and anointed Thy veins with faithfulness, who Thyself
1063 XII |                  brazen statue, the divine vengeance engraved, by the loathsomeness
1064 VII |                  type, with respect to the verity of that fire which yet had
1065 V   |                    it off, and keeping the vestibule as that of a queen, what,
1066 VI  |                                            VI. ~Hence the aged Simeon,
1067 XIV |                  kingdom; the fat of every victim, the living altar of the
1068 III |                   not in need of expiatory victims, Isaiah is our witness,
1069 VII |                                            VII.  While the old man was
1070 VIII|                                            VIII.  Upon all this that righteous
1071 IX  |                 need of it, which was of a virtue beyond nature; now with
1072 IX  |                   all created things, both visible and invisible, shinest forth
1073 III |                   own law, and not to make void the law, but to fulfil it,
1074 IX  |                  that nativity to which He voluntarily stooped, and will have glorified
1075 VI  |                    embracest all things. I wait for Thee, the Lord of life
1076 VIII|                     and we shall no longer wander in error. Thou hast made
1077 II  |                 this new and ever-adorable way. Look around thee with the
1078 VIII|                   sin, he rendered it very weak); but Thou, O Lord, of Thine
1079 VI  |                    Simeon, putting off the weakness of the flesh, and putting
1080     | Whence
1081 XI  |                    the law now waxing old; whilst the widow represents the
1082     | whose
1083     | why
1084 I   |                   divine oracles is opened wide, and the signs prefiguring
1085 VII |                    thine which is not left widowed and desolate. Receive, thou
1086 IX  |                  prophet just so far as He willed to be seen. Then, again,
1087 VI  |                   the root of immortality [Wisd. 15:3]. Thou art He who,
1088 II  |                  and greatest of prophets, wisely unfold to the Church the
1089 III |             country? Should you, forsooth, wish to know this, ye congregation
1090 III |           expiatory victims, Isaiah is our witness, who proclaims distinctly
1091 II  |                    with smoke. And I said, Woe is me! I am pricked to the
1092 IV  |                   forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to
1093 XI  |             children had seen the glorious wonders which, as David sang, the
1094 II  |                   His body-guard, are ever wont to attend the presence of
1095 X   |              all-containing; the fleece of wool, the mystery of which cannot
1096 II  |                 that one and the same will worked in them. ~
1097 II  |                    virginal throne, I say, worship Him who now comes to thee
1098 XIV |                maternal honours, that thou wouldest unceasingly keep us in remembrance.
1099 III |                  time, that He, who though wrapped in swaddling clothes, was
1100 XII |                  sign and sure evidence of wrath; as it is written, "There
1101 X   |                                            X.  "But why do I digress,
1102 XI  |                                            XI.  But for the time that
1103 XII |                                            XII.  And in addition to this,
1104 XIII|                                            XIII.  But here, as in port,
1105 XIV |                                            XIV.  Hail to thee for ever,
1106 IX  |                 corruption. For all things yielded and succumbed to that divine
1107 VIII|             righteous man, waxing bold and yielding to the exhortation of the