Гимн 45. О точнейшем богословии и о том, что не видящий света славы Божией хуже слепых 332 .

O my generous God, my Creator, shine upon me with Your more unapproachable light, in order to fill my heart with joy. Hey, don’t be angry, don’t leave her (me), but illuminate my soul with Your light, for Your light (is) You, my God. Indeed, although You are called by many and different names, You Yourself are one. This One is unknown, invisible and inexplicable for all nature, which, being understood (through comparison), is called by all kinds of names). So, this One is a trinitarian Nature, one Divinity, one kingdom, one power, for the Trinity is one. After all, the Trinity is one - my God, and not three. However, this One is three in hypostases, homogeneous to each other in nature, equally powerful and completely consubstantial, on the one hand inextricably united above the mind, on the other hand, on the contrary, inseparably divided, in one there are three, and in three one. For there is one Jesus Christ, who created everything, with the beginningless Father and the co-originating Holy Spirit. So, the Trinity is a completely indivisible unity: in one there are three, and in three there is one; Better yet, these three are one, and one, on the contrary, is three. Understand, worship and believe now and forever. For this One, when it appears, shines and illuminates, when it is communicated and taught, it becomes every good. Therefore, it is called by us not one, but many (names): light, peace and joy, life, food and drink, clothing, cover, tabernacle and divine dwelling, east, resurrection, rest and font, fire, water, river, source of life and stream, bread and wine, and the common delight of the faithful, a luxurious feast and pleasure that we mysteriously enjoy, truly the sun unstoppable, an eternally shining star and a lamp shining inside the spiritual church. This One is also many, It both destroys and creates. This One created everything through the Word and contains it all through the Spirit of power. This One created heaven and earth out of nothing, gave (them) existence and ineffably composed. This One, by will (alone), created the sun, moon and stars - a new and extraordinary miracle. This One, by His command, brought forth four-legged creatures, creeping things and beasts, every kind of bird, and everything in the sea (living), as we all see. Finally, It created me as a king, and gave me all this to serve as slaves, slavishly fulfilling my needs. So, (while) everything (else) has preserved and still preserves the commandment of this One, God, I say, of all, I, the unfortunate one, turned out to be ungrateful, unappreciative and disobedient to God, who created me and abundantly bestowed all these blessings. Having violated the commandment, I became indecent and found myself, pitiful, worse than all cattle, worse than beasts, reptiles and birds. Having deviated from the right and divine path, I pitifully lost the glory given to me, took off the light and divine clothing, and having been born in darkness, now I lie in it, not knowing that I am deprived of light. Behold, I say, the sun shines during the day, and I see it, but when night comes, I light candles and a lamp for myself, and I see it. And (who) other of people has [in this regard] anything greater than me? For this is (only), of course, what people (can) see in this world, and no other person sees (otherwise or) more than this. Saying this, I lie, mock myself, deceive myself, the Savior, and contradict myself, not wanting to know myself that I am blind, not wanting to work, not wanting to see, not wanting, condemned, to admit my blindness. Who has seen God, the light of the world? - I say, and I say, Master, completely insensitively, not realizing that I am thinking and speaking badly. For he who says that he does not see or contemplate Your light at all, and even more so who claims that it is impossible to see, O Master, the light of Your Divine glory, rejects all the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles and Your words, O Jesus, and the economy. For if, having shone from above, You appeared in darkness and came into the world, with good heart, desiring, like us, to live philanthropically with people, and truthfully said that You are the light of the world (John 8:12; 9:5), we do not see You; then (aren’t we) completely blind and aren’t we, my Christ, even more pitiful than the blind? – Truly so, truly we are dead and blind, because we do not see You, the life-giving Light. The blind do not see the sensual sun, but they also live, Master, and somehow move. For it does not grant life, but only (the ability) to see. You, being all good things, always give them to Your servants who see Your light. Since You are life, you give life with all the other, I say, benefits that You Yourself are. He who has You truly possesses everything in You. May I not be deprived of You, Master, may I not be deprived of You, Creator, may I not be deprived of You, O Compassionate One, I am despicable and a wanderer. For I became a stranger and a stranger here, as it pleased You, not arbitrarily, not by my own will, but by Your grace I recognized myself as a stranger among these visible (things); intelligently illuminated by Your light, I realized that You transfer the human race into the immaterial and invisible world and settle (in it), dividing and distributing those worthy of habitation, to each one in accordance with how he, O Savior, has preserved Your commandments. Therefore, I pray that you will make me right with You, although I have sinned greatly, more than all people, and am worthy of torment and execution. But accept me, Master, who falls like a publican and a harlot, although I do not cry in the same way, although I do not wipe Your feet, O Christ, in the same way with my hair, although I sigh and weep not in the same way. But You pour out mercy, sharpen compassion and exude goodness, and have mercy on me. (O You, nailed with your hands and feet on the cross and pierced in the ribs with a spear, O You most merciful) 333, have mercy and deliver me from eternal fire, granting me henceforth to serve You well, and then stand before You without condemnation and be taken inside Your palace, Savior, where I will rejoice with You, the good Lord, ineffable joy forever. In P. r. this hymn appears under the same number as in the printed edition, but it is known there only by its title; the very text of the anthem has been lost. In l. This is chapter 32. The words in brackets are taken from l. p. You might be interested in: