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Romanos Melodos : REJOICE O BRIDE UNMARRIED

from the Akathist Hymn, * Excerpts, Translated by Elpenor 
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OD's command mystically in the mind received and into Joseph's abode straightaway the bodiless stood, saying to the virgin:

He who bowed the heavens by his descending, is wholly contained unchanged in you. And seeing in your womb received he a servant's face, I stand in amazement and cry unto you:


Rejoice, O bride unmarried

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χαῖρε, νύμφη ἀνύμφευτε

Τὸ προσταχθὲν μυστικῶς λαβὼν ἐν γνώσει ἐν τῇ σκηνῆ τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ σπουδῇ ἐπέστη ὁ ἀσώματος λέγων τῇ ἀπειρογάμῳ·

Ὁ κλίνας τῇ καταβάσει τοὺς οὐρανοὺς χωρεῖται ἀναλλοιώτως ὅλος ἐν σοί· ὃν καὶ βλέπων ἐν μήτρᾳ σου λαβόντα δούλου μορφὴν ἐξίσταμαι κραυγάζων σοι·


Χαῖρε͵ νύμφη ἀνύμφευτε

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