st. john of damascus (676-749 - Cristo Raul
st. john of damascus (676-749 - Cristo Raul
st. john of damascus (676-749 - Cristo Raul
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"<br />
148 ST. JOHN OF DAMASCUS.<br />
<strong>of</strong> Damascene, is familiar to many from the poetical<br />
version <strong>of</strong> Dr. Neale :<br />
Tis the Day <strong>of</strong> Resurrection :<br />
Earth ! tell it out abroad !<br />
The Passover <strong>of</strong> gladness !<br />
The Passover <strong>of</strong> God !<br />
From Death to Life eternal,<br />
From this world to the sky,<br />
Our Chri<strong>st</strong> hath brought us over,<br />
With hymns <strong>of</strong> victory."<br />
But it<br />
may give a truer idea <strong>of</strong> its real form to<br />
subjoin Dr. Neale s literal rendering <strong>of</strong> one or two<br />
<strong>of</strong> the odes composing it :<br />
ODE 3.<br />
The Hirmcs.<br />
"C ome, and let us drink the new drink, not produced by<br />
miracle from the barren rock, but the fountain <strong>of</strong> immor<br />
tality, Chri<strong>st</strong> having bur<strong>st</strong> from the tomb,<br />
blished."<br />
in Whom we are e<strong>st</strong>a<br />
$L ow are all things filled with light ;<br />
earth and heaven,<br />
and that which is under the earth. Now then let all creation<br />
keep fe<strong>st</strong>ival for the Resurrection <strong>of</strong> Chri<strong>st</strong>, in which it is<br />
e<strong>st</strong>ablished.<br />
f| e<strong>st</strong>erday, O Chri<strong>st</strong>, I was buried together with Thee;<br />
to-day with Thee arising I arise. Ye<strong>st</strong>erday I was crucified<br />
together with Thee :<br />
glorify me, O Saviour, together with Thy<br />
self in Thy Kingdom.<br />
ODE 4.<br />
Hirmos.<br />
"3Epon thy divine watch-tower, Habaccuk, Prophet <strong>of</strong><br />
God, <strong>st</strong>and with me and shew the Angel <strong>of</strong> Light continually<br />
proclaiming, To-day is salvation to the world, for Chri<strong>st</strong>, as<br />
Almighty,<br />
hath arisen."<br />
( hri<strong>st</strong> appear-ed as a male, opened the Virgin s womb ;<br />
V and, as mortal, He is named a Lamb. Spotless is our Pascha