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Every muddy spring of heresy is dried up, O famous Maximus, being blocked by the sweetness of your tongue.

Be merciful to me, O only good one, and cause a spring of grace, O Christ, to gush forth in my heart through the prayers of your holy one.

Theot. O you who alone through a word bore the Word in the flesh, deliver, we pray, from the snares

of the enemy our souls. Ode 7. Those from Judea. One nature of the Trinity, one will he said, one (220) energy; but of God

incarnate, two natures, wills, energies you proclaimed; the God of our fathers, blessed are you.

You proclaimed not two wills divided by opposition of mind, but rather, O Father, differing in natural quality; The God of our fathers, blessed are you.

Holding your glorious words as a pillar of orthodoxy, O Father, we worship the one of the Trinity in two substances and wills; The God of our fathers, blessed are you.

Knowing, O Father, two energies of the God who out of pity became incarnate, and having been taught by you of two self-determining wills, we sing: The God of our fathers, blessed are you.

Theot. Having been made flesh from a virgin's womb, you appeared for our salvation; wherefore, your

mother, knowing her as the Theotokos, we thankfully cry out: The God of our fathers, blessed are you.

Ode 8. The Heirmos. Victors over the tyrant and the flame, by your grace exceedingly

the enduring youths, cried out: "Bless the Lord, all you works, and supremely exalt him unto all the ages."

Having wholly desired him who exceedingly desired the race of men, you took up your cross,

and with him, O blessed one, you were crucified. Bless the Lord, all you works. Having been estranged from all death-bearing pleasure, O blessed one, you made yourself wholly

a spotless divine mirror; singing, "Bless, O works, the Lord." You were not terrified by the cruelty of a harsh, impious tyrant; but you stood as a tower

unbending and unshaken of orthodoxy; singing, "Bless, O works, the Lord." Having received a life-bearing radiance from the one, three-hypostasized Godhead, you appeared to those in

darkness as a sun, and to the wandering; singing, "Bless, O works, the Lord." Theot. Of Adam who had fallen, O Virgin, you appeared on the one hand as daughter, but on the other, as mother of God,

who renewed my substance, whom we, all the works, hymn as Lord. Ode 9. The Heirmos. The one prefigured on the mountain to the lawgiver in fire and bush,

the offspring of the Ever-Virgin, for the salvation of us the faithful, with unceasing hymns we magnify.

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Ξηραίνεται αἱρέσεως πηγή βορβορώδους ἅπασα, ἀοίδιμε Μάξιμε, φραττομένη τ·ῇ ἡδύτητι τῆς γλώττης σου.

Ἱλάσθητί μοι, μόνε ἀγαθέ, καί πηγήν τῆς χάριτος, Χριστέ, τῇ καρδίᾳ μου ταῖς λιταῖς τοῦ σοῦ ὁσίου ἀνάβλυσον.

Θεοτ. Ἡ μόνη διά λόγου ἐν σαρκί τόν Λόγον κυήσασα, ῥῦσαι, δεόμεθα, τῶν παγίδων

τοῦ ἐχθροῦ τάς ψυχάς ἡμῶν. ᾨδή ζ΄. Οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἰουδαίας. Μίαν φύσιν Τριάδος, μίαν θέλησιν ἔφη, μίαν (220) ἐνέργειαν· Θεοῦ δέ

σαρκωθέντος, δύο φύσεις, θελήσεις ἐνεργείας ἐκήρυξας· ὁ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν Θεός εὐλογητός εἶ.

Οὐ θελήματα δύο διαιρούμενα γνώμης ἐναντιότητι, ποιότητι δέ μᾶλλον, ἀνεκήρυξας, Πάτερ, φυσικῇ διαφέροντα· Ὁ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν Θεός εὐλογητός εἶ.

Στήλην ὀρθοδοξίας τούς ἐνδόξους σου λόγους, Πάτερ, κατέχοντες, τόν ἕνα τῆς Τριάδος ἐν δυσί ταῖς οὐσίαις καί θελήσεσι σέβομεν· Ὁ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν Θεός, εὐλογητός εἶ.

∆ύο, Πάτερ, εἰδότες ἐνεργείας τοῦ οἴκτῳ σεσαρκωμένου Θεοῦ, δισσάς αὐτεξουσίους θελήσεις διδαχθέντες ὑπό σοῦ, ἀναμέλπομεν· Ὁ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν Θεός, εὐλογητός εἶ.

Θεοτ. Παρθενικῆς ἐκ νηδύος σαρκωθείς ἐπεφάνης εἰς σωτηρίαν ἡμῶν· διό σου τήν

μητέρα εἰδότες Θεοτόκον, εὐχαρίστως κραυγάζομεν· Ὁ τῶν πατέρων ἠμῶν Θεός, εὐλογητός εἶ.

ᾨδή η΄. Ὁ εἱρμός. Νικηταί τυράννου καί φλογός τῇ χάριτί σου σφόδρα

ἀνεχόμενοι παῖδες, ἐβόων· "Εὐλογεῖτε, πάντα τά ἔργα, τόν Κύριον, καί ὑπερυψοῦτε εἰς πάντας τούς αἰῶνας."

Ὁλικῶς ποθήσας τόν ὑπερποθήσαντα γένος ἀνθρώπων, τόν σταυρόν σου ἧρας,

καί αὐτῷ, μακάριε συνεσταυρώθης. Εὐλογεῖτε, πάντα τά ἔργα, τόν Κύριον. Ξενωθείς ἀπάσης ἡδονῆς, μακάριε, θανατηφόρου, σεαυτόν εἰργάσω ὅλον

ἀκηλίδωτα ἔσοπτρον θεῖον· Εὐλογεῖτε, μέλπων, τά ἔργα, τόν Κύριον. Ἀπηνοῦς τυράννου δεσσεβοῦς ὠμότητα οὐ κατεπλάγης· ἀλλ᾿ ὡς πύργος ἔστης

ἀκλινής ἀλόνητος ὀρθοδοξίας· Εὐλογεῖτε, μέλπων, τά ἔργα, τόν Κύριον. Ζωηφόρον αἴγλην ἐκ μιᾶς Θεότητος τρισυποστάτου δεδογμένος ὤφθης τοῖς ἐν

σκότει ἥλιος καί πλανωμένοις· Εὐλογεῖτε, μέλπων, τά ἔργα, τόν Κύριον. Θεοτ. Τοῦ Ἀδάμ, Παρθένε, τοῦ παραπεσόντος μέν ὤφθης θυγάτηρ, τοῦ Θεοῦ δέ μήτηρ,

τοῦ ἀνακαινίσαντός μου τήν οὐσίαν, ὅν ὑμνοῦμεν πάντα τά ἔργα τόν Κύριον. ᾨδή θ΄. Ὁ εἱρμός. Τόν προδηλωθέντα ἐν ὄρει τῷ νομοθέτῃ ἐν πυρί καί βάτῳ

τόκον τῆς Ἀειπαρθένου, εἰς ἡμῶν τῶν πιστῶν σωτηρίαν, ὕμνοις ἀσιγήτοις μεγαλύνομεν.