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

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