One pure and incorruptible Lord, for the ineffable mercy of humanity, our all-perceived mixture of pure and virgin blood is greater than the nature of the One who gave birth to Thee, the Divine Spirit by invasion, and by the favor of the Ever-present Father, Christ Jesus, the wisdom of God, and peace, and power; By your perception, life-giving and saving, suffering perceived, cross, nails, spear, death, mortify my soul-crushing bodily passions. By Your burial of the hellish kingdoms captive, bury my good thoughts, evil advice, and destroy the spirits of wickedness. By Thy three-day and life-giving resurrection of the fallen forefather, raise me up by the sin that crawled, offering me images of repentance. By Thy glorious ascension, carnal deifying perception, and honor this on the right hand of the Father, grant me the gift of receiving the communion of Thy Holy Mysteries on the right hand of those who are being saved. By the descent of Your Teacher, the Spirit has made the vessels honest and sacred; Your disciples have made it, friend and show me of That coming.
Although you should come again to judge the universe with righteousness, deign me to place You on the clouds, my Judge and Creator, with all Your saints; May I endlessly glorify and glorify You, with Your Beginningless Father, and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Imperishable - here: whole, pure, unalloyed (not having any extraneous element in His Divine nature - as opposed to our “mixing”. Mixing is a complex, “composite” nature. More than nature - supernaturally. Who gave birth to Thee - Who gave birth to You. By Your perception - what is perceived by You, that is, the flesh perceived by You. Perceived - accepted. Evil advice - evil, bad intentions. Destroy the spirits of evil, scatter, scatter the one who has fallen into sin (literally: one who has slipped in sin). Offering images of repentance to me can be understood in two ways: by offering me examples of repentance, or by giving me the means of repentance - the one who has deified the (human) one perceived by You. flesh. And this is the seat of the Father, who gave her the honor of sitting on the right side of the Father.
Friend, show me Your coming - show me too as the receptacle of His coming. Paki - again. To place You on the clouds - to meet You coming on the clouds.
+ This prayer consistently brings before our inner gaze the stages of the House of God, the mystery of the salvation of the human race in the Person of Christ - His Incarnation, Nativity, Passion, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, the Second Coming, the Last Judgment - and all this is closely connected with the preparation for the reception of the Holy Mysteries of Christ and with participation in the Sacrament of Communion itself. The work of God's Providence is addressed by this prayer for me personally, converging on the point of my heart, my life. In this respect, the prayer resembles the secret prayer of the Eucharistic canon (the center of the Liturgy), when thanksgiving is offered through the lips of the priest for the entire remembered work of our salvation (also right up to the Last Judgment), and the “vanishing point” is the throne with the Holy Mysteries. The entire prayer of Simeon Metaphrast is directed towards the Holy Mysteries...
This prayer is a living example of how ardently, how deeply personally we should perceive the Creed (after all, it, in essence, goes through all its members), how each dogma should be correlated with the main thing in our life.
One pure and incorruptible Lord, for the ineffable mercy of our love for mankind, we have received all the confusion... “So, so that not only through love, but also through deed, we may become members of the flesh of Christ, let us partake of this flesh. And this happens through the food that Christ gave to express His great love for us. For this, He mixed Himself with us and dissolved His Body in us, so that we would form something single, like a body connected to the head... He gave those who wanted not only to see Him, but also to unite with Him, and to satisfy every desire with Him. He says: “I wanted to be your brother; For your sake I partook of flesh and blood, and this flesh and blood, through which I became related to you, I again teach you.”
Saint John Chrysostom
The Greek word φúραμα, which is translated by the Slavic mixture, means mixed, kneaded substance, dough; This is precisely the word used in the proverb quoted by the apostle: A little leaven leavens the whole lump (a little leaven leavens the whole mixture - 1 Cor. 5:6; Gal. 5:9). Let us remember that the Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened (Matt. 13:33). Christ, for the “test” of our mixed, earthly-heavenly nature, becomes this leaven of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Bury my evil thoughts with good thoughts... The order of words is different from what we are used to: bury my evil intentions with good thoughts.