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As for our sake he underwent birth through a woman, he appeared in life, showing himself at his baptism, that he who appeared is God and man, he suffered for us by your permission and died and rose by your power; wherefore also celebrating the festival of the resurrection on the Lord's day, we rejoice in him who conquered death, but brought to light life and incorruption; for through him you brought the nations to yourself for a peculiar people, the true Israel, the beloved of God, the one who sees God. For you, Lord, both brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt and rescued them from the iron furnace and from clay and brick-making, you delivered them from the hand of Pharaoh and those under him, and led them through the sea as through dry land, and bore with their ways in the wilderness with all kinds of good things. You gave them the law of ten commandments, spoken by your voice and written by your hand; you commanded them to keep the Sabbath, not giving a pretext for idleness, but an occasion for piety, for the knowledge of your power, for the hindrance of evils as having confined them in a holy enclosure for the sake of instruction, for the exultation of the week; for this reason one week and seven weeks and the seventh month and the seventh year and, in its cycle, the fiftieth year for release. So that men might have no excuse to plead ignorance, for this reason you permitted them to rest every Sabbath, so that no one should wish to utter a word in anger from his mouth on the day of the Sabbaths; for the Sabbath is the cessation of creation, the completion of the world, a searching of the laws, a thankful praise to God for what he bestowed on men. But the Lord's day is pre-eminent above all these, pointing to the Mediator himself, the Provider, the Lawgiver, the cause of the resurrection, the firstborn of all creation, the God Word and man born of Mary alone without a man, who lived a holy life, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate and died and rose from the dead, as the Lord's day commands you, Master, to offer thanksgiving for all things. For this is the grace given by you, which by its greatness has covered every good deed. You who fulfilled the promises through the prophets and had mercy on Sion and pitied Jerusalem by exalting the throne of David your servant in her midst through the birth of Christ who was born of his seed according to the flesh from a virgin alone; you yourself also now,

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Ὡς δι' ἡμᾶς γένεσιν ὑπέστη τὴν διὰ γυναικός, ἐπεφάνη τῷ βίῳ ἀναδεικνὺς ἑαυτὸν ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι, ὡς Θεός ἐστι καὶ ἄνθρωπος ὁ φανείς, ἔπαθεν δι' ἡμᾶς σῇ συγχωρήσει καὶ ἀπέθανεν καὶ ἀνέστη σῷ κράτει· διὸ καὶ τὴν ἀναστάσιμον ἑορτὴν πανηγυρίζοντες τῇ κυριακῇ χαίρομεν ἐπὶ τῷ νική σαντι μὲν τὸν θάνατον, φωτίσαντι δὲ ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν· δι' αὐτοῦ γὰρ προσηγάγου τὰ ἔθνη ἑαυτῷ εἰς λαὸν περι ούσιον, τὸν ἀληθινὸν Ἰσραήλ, τὸν θεοφιλῆ, τὸν ὁρῶντα Θεόν. Σὺ γάρ, Κύριε, καὶ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Aἰγύπτου καὶ ἐρρύσω ἐκ καμίνου σιδηρᾶς καὶ ἐκ πηλοῦ καὶ πλινθουργίας, ἐλυτρώσω ἐκ χειρὸς Φαραῶ καὶ τῶν ὑπ' αὐτὸν καὶ διὰ θαλάσσης ὡς διὰ ξηρᾶς αὐτοὺς παρή γαγες καὶ ἐτροποφόρησας αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ παντοίοις ἀγαθοῖς. Νόμον αὐτοῖς ἐδωρήσω δέκα λογίων σῇ φωνῇ φθεγχθέντα καὶ χειρὶ σῇ καταγραφέντα· σαββατίζειν ἐνε τείλω, οὐ πρόφασιν ἀργίας διδούς, ἀλλ' ἀφορμὴν εὐσεβείας, εἰς γνῶσιν τῆς σῆς δυνάμεως, εἰς κώλυσιν κακῶν ὡς ἐν ἱερῷ καθείρξας περιβόλῳ διδασκαλίας χάριν, εἰς ἀγαλλίαμα ἑβδομάδος· διὰ τοῦτο ἑβδομὰς μία καὶ ἑβδομάδες ἑπτὰ καὶ μὴν ἕβδομος καὶ ἐνιαυτὸς ἕβδομος καὶ τούτου κατὰ ἀνα κύκλησιν ἔτος πεντηκοστὸν εἰς ἄφεσιν. Ὅπως μηδεμίαν ἔχωσιν πρόφασιν ἄνθρωποι ἄγνοιαν σκήψασθαι, τούτου χάριν πᾶν σάββατον ἐπέτρεψας ἀργεῖν, ὅπως μηδὲ λόγον τις ἐν ὀργῇ ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ προέσθαι θελήσῃ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῶν σαββάτων· σάββατον γάρ ἐστιν κατάπαυσις δημιουργίας, τελείωσις κόσμου, νόμων ζήτησις, αἶνος εἰς Θεὸν εὐχάριστος ὑπὲρ ὧν ἀνθρώποις ἐδωρήσατο. Ὣν ἁπάντων ἡ κυριακὴ προὔχουσα, αὐτὸν τὸν μεσί την, τὸν προνοητήν, τὸν νομοθέτην, τὸν ἀναστάσεως αἴτιον, τὸν πρωτότοκον πάσης κτίσεως, τὸν Θεὸν λόγον καὶ ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἐκ Μαρίας γεννηθέντα μόνον δίχα ἀνδρός, τὸν πολιτευσάμενον ὁσίως, τὸν σταυρωθέντα ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτου καὶ ἀποθανόντα καὶ ἀναστάντα ἐκ νεκρῶν ὑπο δεικνύουσα, ὡς κυριακὴ παρακελεύεται σοί, δέσποτα, τὴν ὑπὲρ πάντων εὐχαριστίαν προσφέρειν. Aὕτη γὰρ ἡ ὑπὸ σοῦ παρασχεθεῖσα χάρις, ἥτις διὰ μέγεθος πᾶσαν εὐεργεσίαν ἐκάλυψεν. Ὁ τὰς ἐπαγγελίας τὰς διὰ τῶν προφητῶν πληρώσας καὶ ἐλεήσας τὴν Σιὼν καὶ οἰκτειρήσας τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῷ τὸν θρόνον ∆αυὶδ τοῦ παιδός σου ἀνυψῶσαι ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς τῇ γενέσει τοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἐκ σπέρματος αὐτοῦ κατὰ σάρκα γεννηθέντος ἐκ μόνης παρθένου· αὐτὸς καὶ νῦν,