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When we have put off the passions, then we will receive perfect knowledge. Do not imitate Adam, who dared to eat the forbidden fruit; do not touch the hidden things, but leave the knowledge of them for the proper time. Be persuaded by the wise one who says: “Do not say: What is this? For what is this? For all things were made for a purpose.” Therefore, gathering from every side the sources for hymns, and blending them into one hymnody, offer them with us to the Creator, and Giver of good things, and Savior Christ, our true God. To him be glory, and worship, and majesty unto the endless ages of ages. Amen.

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Ὅταν ἀποδυσώμεθα τὰ πάθη, τότε τὴν τελείαν γνῶσιν ληψόμεθα. Μὴ μιμήσησθε τὸν Ἀδὰμ, ὃς τῶν ἀπηγορευμένων καρπῶν κατετόλμησε· μὴ ἅψησθε τῶν κεκρυμμένων, ἀλλὰ τῷ προσήκοντι καιρῷ τὴν τούτων καταλείψατε γνῶσιν. Πείσθητε τῷ σοφῷ λέγοντι· «Μὴ εἴπῃς; Τί τοῦτο; εἰς τί τοῦτο; Πάντα γὰρ εἰς χρείαν ἐγένετο.» Πανταχόθεν οὖν ὕμνων ἀφορμὰς ἐρανισάμενοι, καὶ μίαν ὑμνῳδίαν κεράσαντες, προσενέγκατε μεθ' ἡμῶν τῷ Ποιητῇ, καὶ ἀγαθοδότῃ, καὶ Σωτῆρι Χριστῷ, τῷ ἀληθινῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν. Αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα, καὶ ἡ προσκύνησις, καὶ μεγαλοπρέπεια εἰς τοὺς ἀτελευτήτους αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.