Гимн 24. О том, что иногда учитель, заботясь об исправлении ближнего 236 , увлекаем бывает в находящуюся в том слабость страсти 237 .

Have mercy on me, Lord, have mercy on me, one To the Savior, who covered me from infancy, Much to me, who have deliberately sinned, With his goodness he mercifully forgave everything, Who snatched me away from the terrible and vain world, From relatives and friends and obscene pleasures, Who deigned me to be here, as if on a mountain, And show me Your wondrous glory, O my God, Who filled me with Your Divine Spirit, O my Christ, And he filled me with spiritual enlightenment. Thou Thy unrepentant (unchangeable) grace, O my God, Give me, finally, completely to Your servant. Do not take it away, Lord, do not turn away, the Creator, And do not despise (me), You who once brought me before Your face, Who has made it among Your servants, Who has sealed You have called me the seal of your grace and yours. Don't deny me again, don't hide me again The light of Your face; and darkness will cover me, The abyss will swallow and the sky will crush, Above which You have raised me, O my Savior, And with the Angels, it’s better with You, the Creator of everything I have been worthy to abide and rejoice with You, And see the incomparable glory of Your face, And enjoy the impregnable light to your heart's content, And rejoice and have fun with indescribable joy Through cohabitation, Master, with Your ineffable light. Enjoying that indescribable light, I rejoiced and rejoiced with You, Creator and Maker, Contemplating the inexplicable beauty of Your face. When I again brought my mind down to earth, Then, enlightened by You, Master, I did not look at this world, Not on things in the world. But he was above passions and worries, And revolving in (everyday) affairs and exposing evil, I did not partake, as before, of human evils. Having slowed down among them, he preferred them to everything else, And having contacted, Vladyka, with lovers of verbal disputes, In the hope of correction, I took communion of evil And darkness, alas for me! and embraced the passions madly, And captured (by these) wild beasts, I am in distress (now). For desiring to spare others harm from them, I myself was the first to become the prey of beasts. But, having anticipated, take pity, but, hastening, deliver The one who came to them for Your sake, O Lover of Mankind. For according to Thy commandment I have laid down, O Merciful One, My most unfortunate soul for my brothers. So, although I am wounded, You can heal me, Savior. Although I, the unfortunate one, have been taken prisoner by the enemies, But You Yourself, as strong and strong, You can deliver (me) by Your will alone; Though I am caught in the jaws and paws of beasts, But when You appear, they will immediately die, and I will live. O great in bounties and ineffable in mercy! Have pity and have mercy on me, the fallen one. I sank into the well (to) deliver my neighbor, And with him he himself fell; just to the Savior, Don't leave me lying in the ditch until the end. Truly I know Your commandment, my all-merciful God, What must certainly save a brother from death And from the wound of sin, but through sin you will not perish with it, which is what happened to me, unfortunate. I fell carelessly, relying on myself And even spare him and yourself too, And if not, then wait above and mourn the fallen, And as much as you have strength, run from falling with him. But even now rise and lead from the abyss And place me, O Christ, on the rock of Your commandments, And again show me the light that this world cannot contain, But (which) is beyond the world, and visible light, and air Sensual, and the sky, and everything sensual Makes, my Savior, the one who contemplates him. And whether he is outside the body or completely in the body, Not knowing, God, at that hour, I think that being then, as it were, an immaterial luminary, And shining with the beauty of the intelligent Sun, Cannot sensually see his light, But he sees only Him alone - the never-setting Luminary, Contemplating the indescribable beauty of His glory, And greatly amazed, he cannot understand And understand this way of contemplation, How or where, inexplicably existing, He is seen, and wanting to [dwell] in the saints, he is limited. But (now) we all know this, initiated into such sacraments, What is truly out of the world then We stay and remain as long as we see what And again we are in the body and in the world. Remembering joy and that light, And we cry and lament about sweet pleasure; Just like a suckling child seeing his mother And remembering the sweetness of milk, he screams and cries, Until, having grabbed [the breast], he has sucked his fill. This is what we ask now, we beseech You for this. And we fall down (to) receive that inalienably, the Savior, So that we may even now be nourished, O All-Merciful One, from this Bread, intelligently descending from heaven And imparting life to all who partake (of him), And leaving and making a procession to You, They would have (him) as a companion, and a helper, and a deliverer, And with him and through him they would be brought to You, the Savior. He is also at the Last Judgment our sins He will cover, O Lord, so that they do not open And they were not obvious to all Angels and people. But may he also be a luminous robe for us, And glory and crown forever and ever. In P. r. this passage can be read without the typos that were made in the published Greek. text, exactly; όίά τής εἰς τόν πληαΐον έπιμελΐας. In P. r. this hymn has not been preserved, since according to the table of contents it should be the 49th word; It’s not in L. p. You might be interested in: