Hymns from the Greek Office Books. John Brownlie

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Hymns from the Greek Office Books / Together with Centos and Suggestions

      PREFACE

      The renderings contained in this volume are chosen from a quantity of material, much of which had to be set aside as, for various reasons, unsuitable. But, as can be understood, in process of reading, thoughts linked themselves to the memory, and echoes of music, much of it surpassingly sweet, lingered, and from those echoes and thoughts the Centos and Suggestions have been formed. The phrases containing the thoughts, and the echoes repeating the music, have been woven together to form the fabric which is shewn here.

      This volume is presented because the author believes that the hymnody of the West must find much of its finest enrichment in the praise literature of the Church of the East. It would be presumptuous to think that these renderings and suggestions are at all a worthy expression of the noble and richly varied praise of the Eastern Church; but they constitute, together with those contained in two former volumes by the present author, perhaps one-half of all the pieces which have yet appeared in English verse.

      All the renderings in this collection appear for the first time. If any one thinks he has reason to complain of their quality, let him try to do better. The field lies untilled for any one who will work it.

J. B.

      Trinity Manse,

      Portpatrick, September 15, 1904.

      GREEK INDEX

      ἐλεήσον ἡμᾶς, κύριε ἑλέησον ἡμᾶς,

      ἐν ταῖς αὐλαῖς σου ὑμνήσω σε,

      ῥευστοί πῶς γεγόναμεν, ἄφθαρτον εἰκόνα φορέσαντες,

      πάντα ματαιότης τὰ ἀνθρώπινα,

      ταχύς εἰς ἀντίληψιν, μόνος ὑπάρχων Χριστέ,

      ἠ τὸν πρῶτον τῶν Ἀγγέλων,

      νεύματι θουργικῳ κύριε πάντων,

      ἐπεσκέψατο ἡμᾶς ἐξὔψους ὁ Σωτὴρ ἡμῶν,

      τὴν ἄχραντον Εἰκόνα σου προσκυνοῦμεν ἀγαθὲ,

      ὁ φωτίσας τή ἐλλάμψει τῆς σῆς παρουσίας Χριστὲ,

      χαίροις ὁ ζωηφόρος Σταυρὸς,

      σήμερον κρευμᾶται ἐπι ξύλου,

      εσφραγισμένου τοῦ μνήματος,

      ὁ κύριος ἀνελήφθη εἰς οὐρανοὺς,

      εὐλογητὸς εἰ, Χριστέ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν,

      τὸ ἀπ’ αἰῶνος ἀπόκρυφον,

      ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματός σου,

      χαῖρε κεχαριτωμένη Θεοτόκε Παρθένε,

      ναυτιῶν τῷ σὰλῳ τῶν βιωτικῶν μελημάτων,

      ἁι μυροφόροι γυναῖκες, ὄρθρου βαθεός,

      καὶ στραφεὶς ὁ κύριος ἐνέβλεψε τῷ Πετρῷ,

      καὶ ἀνέῳξας ἡμῖν παραδείσου τὰς πύλας,

      καὶ κλαύσωμεν, καὶ πράξωμεν,

      πυρίπνοον δέξασθε πνεύματος δρόσον,

      σαρκὶ ὑπνώσας ὡς θνητός,

      πατὴρ οἰκτιρμῶν,

      ὀ πλάστης μου κὺριος,

      ὁ Σωτὴρ ἡμῶν, ἀνατολὴ ἀνατολῶν,

      ὑμνοῦμεν σου Χριστέ, τὸ σωτήριον παθος,

      φῶς ἐκ φωτὸς,

      ψυχή μου! ἀνάστα,

      κλίνας οὐρανοὺς, κατέβη,

      δεῦτε ἀγαλλιασωμέθα τῷ κυρίῳ,

      τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας,

      οὐκ ἀφήσω ὑμᾶς ὀρφανόυς,

      ὅ πλοῦτος και βάθος, σοφίας Θεοῦ!

      ἁι μυροφόροι γυναῖκες,

      καί ὅ τι ἄν αἰτήσητε τοῦτο ποιήσω,

      με νὺξ ἐδέξατο,

      ζωτικῆς ἐξ ὕψους βιαίας φερομένης,

      ἐξαγορευσω κατ’ ἐμοῦ τὴν ἀνομίαν μου τῷ κυρίῳ,

      ἠν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινὸν,

      

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