God, cleanse me, a sinner, for I have done no good before You, but deliver me from the evil one, and Your will be done in me, that I may open my unworthy lips without condemnation and praise Your holy name, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Yako – here: since. Nikolizhe - never. Created - I created (made).
+ Let us supplement some words of the prayers of St. Macarius the Great (about him, see attached) with the words of his ascetic teachings and conversations, in which the grace-filled teaching on prayer is expressed.
God, cleanse me, a sinner, for I have not done anything good before You... “Those who are well-skilled before God recognize themselves as very small and extremely unskillful, and for them it has become a natural and indispensable thing to consider themselves low or even nothing... The rich before God seem poor to themselves.”
And I will praise Your holy name, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. The end of this prayer (like many others) introduces into the perspective of human life the participation of Divine eternity: now, always and forever and ever, may man praise the Triune God! This “formula” already contains the promise of our stay in eternity, where, like the Angels, we will praise God, and a reminder that this eternity lies ahead of us.
Sotvorich is the 1st person singular past tense form of the verb sotvoriti. In Church Slavonic there are four types of past tense verbs; this form belongs to the most common of these tenses - the aorist. For those who do not specifically study the grammar of the Church Slavonic language, it is enough to pay attention to the fact that in all past tenses the verbs also change according to persons (in Russian - both I, and you, and he - created; in Church Slavonic: I created, you created, he created).