st. john of damascus (676-749 - Cristo Raul

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the cxixth Psalm be taken as a hirmos :
and have respect unto Thy ways."
"With my lips have I been telling
:
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HYMNS.
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The completest form in
which these prose hymns
are found is that of the canon. A .canon properly
consists of nine odes, and each ode is divided into
a varying number of stanzas-if these short sentences
groups of sentences, without rhyme, can be properly
so called-termed
troparia." The number of
troparia in an ode is often five, sometimes less
Those in each ode follow the pattern of one, some
times printed at the beginning of the ode, sometimes
at the end; but in the Greek service-books always
distinguished by inverted commas, called a "hirmos.
the hirmos takes its
"
name from
drawing the
others after it, so the ensuing troparia are so called
from their
turning towards it as their model One
two examples of verses selected from the Eno-lish
version of the Psalms, which happen to correspond
rhythm, are given by Dr. Neale in illustration of
his peculiarity of the Greek canon. Thus, if verse
"
I will talk of Thy commandments :
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rrhm r
thee
same
rhythm (m this case an almost
the complete trochaic)
following would be found to correspond :-
of all the judgments of Thy mouth."
O do well unto Thy servant :
(cxix. 15.)
that I
may live, and keep Thy word."
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(cxix. 17.)