of those who have arrived <***> For in one place the land of the unburied barbarians has produced a crop of corpses more than of trees, and in another the sea, troubled and covered over by the mass of remains, is reddened with the blood of foreigners; and now it is properly called the Red [Sea], well dyed with the dye of the barbarians. For it was necessary, I think, for it, seeing the second Pharaoh and you as the new Moses, to represent the scenes of the Red Sea; and now the waves hold as tombs a watery memory and an Egyptian burial; for it was not fitting to see the new punishment as inferior to the old. Let us therefore sing the hymn, not by booming arrhythmically on timbrels, but from the instruments within us mystically tuned; and let us stretch our living strings, and our tongues as plectra, and our lips as cymbals, and with the five-stringed composition of our senses let us sound the highest note for the first. For thus the sight of the eyes cleanses every harmful vision; and again the intelligible gate of hearing will not open its doors to disorderly sounds, nor again may a seasoning of bitter pleasure snatch away a deceived sense of smell, and taste will not be a cause of corruption, but prepared for incorruptible food, and with a touch free from fleeting gains let us handle the Christ-brotherly members, so that the architect of all being, the all-powerful support of things seen and unseen, the firm foundation, who guides nature for its benefit and frightens away the childish disorder of the passions with chastening teachers, may now array his fire-gleaming allies against the dark barbarians, and show the Tigris and the Istrian channel bloodied as the stream of the Nile was before, so that the barbarian mind, having unfortunately tasted it, might be made drunk with the blood of its kin, and may he increase your pious planting, the master flourishing with divine branches; and may he open doors for many words of his conquering the barbarians everywhere. Here now the conclusion of my purpose marks the end of my slow-tongued discourse; but for your son, the younger power, I prepare to address these words: Appear as victory; now it is possible for you to take this bridegroom, to whom you have already given the slaughter of the barbarians as wedding gifts.

ἀφιγμένων <***> πῇ μὲν γὰρ ἡ γῆ τῶν ἀθάπτων βαρβάρων ὕλην παρεβλάστησε τῶν δένδρων πλέον, πῇ δ' ἡ θάλαττα τῇ φορᾷ τῶν λειψάνων ὀχλουμένη τε καὶ κατεστορεσμένη ἐξ ἀλλοφύλων αἱμάτων φοινίσσεται· καὶ νῦν Ἐρυθρὰ κυρίως ἀκούεται καλῶς βαφεῖσα τῇ βαφῇ τῶν βαρβάρων. ἔδει γάρ, οἶμαι, τὸν Φαραὼ τὸν δεύτερον βλέπουσαν αὐτὴν καὶ νέον σὲ Μωσέα τὰς τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς εἰκονίζειν ἐμφάσεις· καὶ νῦν ἔχουσιν εἰς σοροὺς τὰ κύματα μνήμην ἔνυγρον καὶ ταφὴν Αἰγυπτίαν· οὐκ ἦν γὰρ εἰκὸς ἐνδεεστέραν βλέπειν πρὸς τὴν παλαιὰν τὴν νέαν τιμωρίαν. ᾄσωμεν οὖν τὸν ὕμνον, οὐκ ἐν τυμπάνοις ἄρρυθμα βομβήσαντες, ἀλλ' ἐξ ὀργάνων τῶν ἔνδον ἡμῶν μυστικῶς ἡρμοσμένων· καὶ νεῦρα μὲν τείνωμεν ἐψυχωμένα καὶ πλῆκτρα γλώττας καὶ τὰ χείλη κύμβαλα, αἰσθήσεων δὲ πενταχόρδῳ συνθέσει τὸν ἄκρον εἰς τὸν πρῶτον εἴπωμεν τόνον. οὕτω γὰρ ἡ μὲν ὄψις ἡ τῶν ὀμμάτων πᾶσαν καθαίρει βλαπτικὴν θεωρίαν· ἡ δ' αὖ νοητὴ τῶν ἀκουσμάτων πύλη ἤχοις ἀτάκτοις οὐκ ἀνοίξει τὰς θύρας, οὐδ' αὖ γε τὴν ὄσφρησιν ἠπατημένην ἥδυσμα πικρᾶς ἡδονῆς ὑφαρπάσοι καὶ γεῦσις ἔσται μὴ φθορᾶς παραιτία, ἀλλ' εἰς τροφὴν ἄφθαρτον ηὐτρεπισμένη, ἁφαῖς τε ῥευστῶν λημμάτων ἐλευθέραις τὰ Χριστάδελφα ψηλαφήσωμεν μέλη, ὅπως ὁ πάσης ἀρχιτέκτων οὐσίας τὸ πανσθενὲς στήριγμα τῶν ὁρωμένων καὶ τῶν ἀδήλων ἡ πεπηγμένη βάσις, ὁ παιδαγωγῶν συμφερόντως τὴν φύσιν καὶ σωφρονισταῖς ἐκφοβῶν διδασκάλοις τὴν νηπιώδη τῶν παθῶν ἀταξίαν, καὶ νῦν στρατεύσας τοὺς πυραυγεῖς συμμάχους κατὰ σκοτεινῶν ἀντιτάξοι βαρβάρων, δείξοι τε Τίγριν καὶ τὸν Ἴστριον πόρον ὡς πρὶν τὸ Νείλου ῥεῖθρον ᾑματωμένους ὅπως μεθυσθῇ συγγενῶν ἐξ αἱμάτων ὁ βάρβαρος νοῦς δυστυχῶς γεγευμένος, αὔξοι δὲ τὴν σὴν εὐσεβῆ φυτουργίαν, τὸν δεσπότην θάλλοντα τοῖς θείοις κλάδοις· θύρας τε πολλοῖς ἐξανοίγοι τοῖς λόγοις νικῶντος αὐτοῦ πανταχοῦ τοὺς βαρβάρους. ἐνταῦθά μοι νῦν τὸν βραδύγλωττον λόγον τὸ συμπέρασμα τοῦ σκοποῦ περιγράφει· τῷ σῷ δὲ τέκνῳ, τῷ νεωτέρῳ κράτει, τούτους προσειπεῖν εὐτρεπίζω τοὺς λόγους· νίκη φάνηθι· νῦν λαβεῖν σε νυμφίον ἔξεστι τοῦτον, ᾧ τὰ δῶρα τῶν γάμων δέδωκας ἤδη τὴν σφαγὴν τῶν βαρβάρων.