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scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, who delivered to us the man-slaying serpent as a captive, like a sparrow to children, whom all things shudder at and tremble from the face of Your power, who cast him down like lightning from heaven to earth, not by a casting of place, but from honor to dishonor through his own willful malice; Whose glance dries up the abyss and threat melts mountains and truth remains forever, whom infants praise and nursing babes bless, whom angels hymn and worship; He who looks upon the earth and makes it tremble, who touches the mountains and they smoke, who rebukes the sea and dries it up and makes desolate all the rivers, whose clouds are the dust of his feet, who walks upon the sea as upon dry land; Only-begotten God, Son of the great Father, rebuke the evil spirits and deliver the works of Your hands from the energy of the alien spirit, for to You is glory, honor, and worship, and through You to Your Father in the Holy Spirit, for ever; amen. Let the deacon say: Come forth, you who are possessed. And after this let him proclaim: Pray, you who are being illumined. Let all the faithful earnestly entreat on their behalf, that the Lord may count them worthy, having been initiated into the death of Christ, to rise with him and to become partakers of his kingdom and communicants of his mysteries, may he unite and number them among those who are being saved in his holy Church. Again, let us pray earnestly for them: save and raise them up by Your grace. Having been sealed to God through his Christ, bow your heads. Let them then be blessed by the bishop with this blessing: He who said beforehand through your holy prophets to those being initiated: "Wash yourselves, be clean," and through Christ legislated spiritual rebirth; may he himself now look upon those being baptized and bless them and sanctify them, and prepare them to become worthy of your spiritual gift and of your true adoption, of your spiritual mysteries, of the gathering with those who are being saved through Christ our savior, through whom to you is glory, honor, and worship in the Holy Spirit, forever; amen. And let the deacon say: Come forth, you who are being illumined. And after this let him proclaim:

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σκορπίων καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ ἐχθροῦ, ὁ τὸν ἀνθρω ποκτόνον ὄφιν δεσμώτην παραδοὺς ἡμῖν ὡς στρουθίον παι δίοις, ὃν φρίττει πάντα καὶ τρέμει ἀπὸ προσώπου δυνάμεώς σου, ὁ ·ήξας αὐτὸν ὡς ἀστραπὴν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ εἰς γῆν, οὐ τοπικῷ ·ήγματι, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τιμῆς εἰς ἀτιμίαν δι' ἑκούσιον αὐτοῦ κακόνοιαν· Oὗ τὸ βλέμμα ξηραίνει ἄβυσσον καὶ ἡ ἀπειλὴ τήκει ὄρη καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ὃν αἰνεῖ τὰ νήπια καὶ εὐλογεῖ τὰ θηλάζοντα, ὃν ὑμνοῦσιν καὶ προσκυνοῦσιν ἄγγελοι· Ὁ ἐπιβλέπων ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ ποιῶν αὐτὴν τρέμειν, ὁ ἁπτόμενος τῶν ὀρέων καὶ καπνίζονται, ὁ ἀπειλῶν θαλάσσῃ καὶ ξηραίνων αὐτὴν καὶ πάντας τοὺς ποταμοὺς ἐξερημῶν, οὗ νεφέλαι κονιορτὸς τῶν ποδῶν, ὁ περιπατῶν ἐπὶ θαλάσσης ὡς ἐπ' ἐδάφους· Μονογενῆ Θεέ, μεγάλου Πατρὸς Υἱέ, ἐπιτίμησον τοῖς πονηροῖς πνεύμασιν καὶ ·ῦσαι τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου πνεύματος ἐνεργείας, ὅτι σοὶ δόξα, τιμὴ καὶ σέβας καὶ διὰ σοῦ τῷ σῷ Πατρὶ ἐν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. Ὁ διάκονος λεγέτω· Προέλθετε, οἱ ἐνεργούμενοι. Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο προσφωνείτω· Eὔξασθε, οἱ φωτιζόμενοι. Ἐκτενῶς οἱ πιστοὶ πάντες ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν παρακαλέσωμεν, ὅπως ὁ Κύριος καταξιώσῃ αὐτούς, μυηθέντας εἰς τὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ θάνατον, συναναστῆναι αὐτῷ καὶ μετό χους γενέσθαι τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ καὶ κοινωνοὺς τῶν μυστηρίων αὐτοῦ, ἑνώσῃ καὶ συγκαταλέξῃ αὐτοὺς μετὰ τῶν σῳζομένων ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ αὐτοῦ Ἐκκλησίᾳ. Ἔτι ἐκτενῶς ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν δεηθῶμεν· σῶσον καὶ ἀνάστησον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ σῇ χάριτι. Κατασφραγισάμενοι τῷ Θεῷ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, κλίνατε. Eὐλογείσθωσαν οὖν παρὰ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου τήνδε τὴν εὐλο γίαν· Ὁ προειπὼν διὰ τῶν ἁγίων σου προφητῶν τοῖς μυομένοις· «Λούσασθε, καθαροὶ γίνεσθε», καὶ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ νομοθετήσας τὴν πνευματικὴν ἀναγέννησιν· αὐτὸς καὶ νῦν ἔπιδε ἐπὶ τοὺς βαπτιζομένους καὶ εὐλόγησον αὐτοὺς καὶ ἁγίασον, καὶ παρασκεύασον ἀξίους γενέσθαι τῆς πνευματι κῆς σου δωρεᾶς καὶ τῆς ἀληθινῆς σου υἱοθεσίας, τῶν πνευμα τικῶν σου μυστηρίων, τῆς μετὰ τῶν σῳζομένων ἐπισυναγωγῆς διὰ Χριστοῦ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, δι' οὗ σοι δόξα, τιμὴ καὶ σέβας ἐν ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. Καὶ λεγέτω ὁ διάκονος· Προέλθετε, οἱ φωτιζόμενοι. Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο κηρυττέτω·