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You punished the Egyptians with a ten-fold plague, dividing the sea you brought the Israelites across, you destroyed the pursuing Egyptians under the waves, with wood you made bitter water sweet, from a sheer rock you poured forth water, from heaven you rained down manna, food from the air, a flock of quails, a pillar of fire for light by night and a pillar of cloud by day for shade from the heat. You appointed Joshua as general, through him you overthrew the seven nations of the Canaanites, you parted the Jordan, you dried up the rivers of Etham, you broke down walls without machines or human hand. For all things glory be to you, Lord Almighty. Every incorporeal and holy order worships you; the Paraclete worships you; and before all, your holy Child Jesus the Christ, our Lord and God, your messenger and the commander of your power and eternal and unending high priest; countless hosts of angels, archangels, dominions, thrones, principalities, authorities, powers, eternal hosts worship you; the Cherubim and the six-winged Seraphim, with two covering their feet, and with two their heads, and with two flying, and saying, together with thousands of thousands of archangels and ten thousands of ten thousands of angels, crying out unceasingly and without silence, and let all the people say together: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of his glory. Blessed are you for ever; amen. And let the high priest say next: For you are truly holy and all-holy, highest and most exalted for ever. Holy also is your only-begotten Son, our Lord and God Jesus Christ, who, having ministered to you, his God and Father, in all things, both in manifold creation and fitting providence, did not overlook the race of men perishing, but after the natural law, after legal exhortation, after prophetic rebukes and the supervisions of angels—when they were corrupting the natural law along with the positive law and casting out from memory the flood, the conflagration, the plagues against the Egyptians, the slaughters against the Palestinians, and when all were on the very point of perishing—he himself, the creator of man, was pleased by your will to become man, the lawgiver under laws, the high priest a sacrifice, the shepherd a sheep. And he propitiated you, his own God and Father, and reconciled the world, being born of a virgin, he freed all from wrath, being born of a virgin, being made in the flesh, God the Word, the beloved Son, the

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Aἰγυπτίους δεκαπλήγῳ ἐτιμωρήσω, θάλασσαν διελὼν Ἰσραη λίτας διεβίβασας, Aἰγυπτίους ἐπιδιώξαντας ὑποβρυχίους ἀπώλεσας, ξύλῳ πικρὸν ὕδωρ ἐγλύκανας, ἐκ πέτρας ἀκρο τόμου ὕδωρ ἀνέχεας, ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὸ μάννα ὗσας, τροφὴν ἐξ ἀέρος ὀρτυγομήτραν, στῦλον πυρὸς πρὸς φωτισμὸν τὴν νύκτα καὶ στῦλον νεφέλης ἡμέρας πρὸς σκιασμὸν θάλπους· τὸν Ἰησοῦν στρατηγὸν ἀνέδειξας, ἑπτὰ ἔθνη Χαναναίων δι' αὐτοῦ καθεῖλες, Ἰορδάνην ἔρρηξας, τοὺς ποταμοὺς Ἠθὰμ ἐξήρανας, τείχη κατέρρηξας ἄνευ μηχανημάτων καὶ χειρὸς ἀνθρωπίνης. Ὑπὲρ πάντων σοι ἡ δόξα, ∆έσποτα παντοκράτορ. Σὲ προσκυνεῖ πᾶν ἀσώματον καὶ ἅγιον τάγμα· σὲ προσκυνεῖ ὁ Παράκλητος· πρὸ δὲ πάντων ὁ ἅγιός σου Παῖς Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ Κύριος καὶ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, σοῦ δὲ ἄγγελος καὶ τῆς δυνά μεως ἀρχιστρατηγὸς καὶ ἀρχιερεὺς αἰώνιος καὶ ἀτελεύτητος· σὲ προσκυνοῦσιν ἀνάριθμοι στρατιαὶ ἀγγέλων, ἀρχαγγέλων, κυριοτήτων, θρόνων, ἀρχῶν, ἐξουσιῶν, δυνάμεων, στρατιῶν αἰωνίων· τὰ Χερουβὶμ καὶ τὰ ἑξαπτέρυγα Σεραφὶμ ταῖς μὲν δυσὶν κατακαλύπτοντα τοὺς πόδας, ταῖς δὲ δυσὶ τὰς κεφαλάς, ταῖς δὲ δυσὶ πετόμενα, καὶ λέγοντα ἅμα χιλίαις χιλιάσιν ἀρχαγγέλων καὶ μυρίαις μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων ἀκαταπαύστως καὶ ἀσιγήτως βοώσαις, καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἅμα εἰπάτω· Ἅγιος, ἅγιος, ἅγιος Κύριος Σαβαώθ, πλήρης ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ εὐλογητὸς εἰ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν. Καὶ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἑξῆς λεγέτω· Ἅγιος γὰρ εἶ ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ πανάγιος, ὕψιστος καὶ ὑπερυψούμενος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἅγιος δὲ καὶ ὁ μονογε νής σου Υἱός, ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ Θεὸς Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, ὃς εἰς πάντα ὑπηρετησάμενός σοι τῷ Θεῷ αὐτοῦ καὶ Πατρὶ εἴς τε δημιουργίαν διάφορον καὶ πρόνοιαν κατάλληλον οὐ περιεῖδεν τὸ γένος τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπολλύμενον, ἀλλὰ μετὰ φυσικὸν νόμον, μετὰ νομικὴν παραίνεσιν, μετὰ προφητικοὺς ἐλέγχους καὶ τὰς τῶν ἀγγέλων ἐπιστασίας-παραφθειρόντων σὺν τῷ θετῷ καὶ τὸν φυσικὸν νόμον καὶ τῆς μνήμης ἐκβαλ λόντων τὸν κατακλυσμόν, τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν, τὰς κατ' Aἰγυπτίων πληγάς, τὰς κατὰ Παλαιστινῶν σφαγάς, καὶ μελλόντων ὅσον οὐδέπω ἀπόλλυσθαι πάντων-εὐδόκησεν αὐτὸς γνώμῃ σῇ ὁ δημιουργὸς ἀνθρώπου ἄνθρωπος γενέσθαι, ὁ νομοθέτης ὑπὸ νόμους, ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἱερεῖον, ὁ ποιμὴν πρόβατον· Καὶ ἐξευμενίσατό σε τὸν ἑαυτοῦ Θεὸν καὶ Πατέρα καὶ τῷ κόσμῳ κατήλλαξεν γενόμενος ἐκ παρθένου, ὀργῆς τοὺς πάντας ἠλευθέρωσεν γενόμενος ἐκ παρθένου, γενόμενος ἐν σαρκὶ ὁ Θεὸς Λόγος, ὁ ἀγαπητὸς Υἱός, ὁ