From unclean lips, from a vile heart, from an unclean tongue, from a soul defiled, accept this prayer, my Christ, and do not despise my words, below images, below lack of study. Grant me to boldly say what I want, my Christ, and even more so, teach me what I should do and say. Having sinned more than the harlot, even though I knew where you were, having bought myrrh, I came boldly to anoint Your nose, my God, my Lord and Christ. Just as you did not reject what came from your heart, abhor me, the Word; Apply yours to my nose, and hold and kiss, and boldly anoint this with streams of tears, like valuable myrrh. Wash me with my tears, cleanse me with them, O Word. Forgive my sins and grant me forgiveness. Weigh a multitude of evils, weigh my scabs, and see my ulcers, but also weigh my faith, and see my will, and hear my sighing. There is no hidden part of you, my God, my Creator, my Savior, below a drop of tears, below a drop of a certain part. Thy eyes have seen what I have not done, but in Thy book the essence of what has not yet been done is written to You.
See my humility, see my great work, and forgive me all my sins, O God of all; that with a pure heart, a trembling thought, and a contrite soul, I may partake of Your undefiled and Holy Mysteries, by which everyone who eats and drinks with a pure heart is revived and adored. You have declared, my Lord: everyone eats my flesh and drinks my blood. This one abides in Me, and in Him I am. The word of all my Lord and God is true: for you partake of the Divine and adoring graces, for I am not alone, but with You, my Christ, the Trisolar Light, enlightening the world. For I will not be alone except You, the Life-Giver, my breath, my life, my joy, the salvation of the world. For this reason, I come to You, as I see you, with tears and a contrite soul; I ask you to accept the deliverance of my sins, and to partake of Your life-giving and immaculate Mysteries without condemnation, so that You may remain, as You have promised, with me, the repentant one; let the deceiver deceive me, deceiving me, and deceiving those who idolize Your words.
For this reason I fall down to You, and cry out to You warmly: as You received the prodigal, and the harlot who came, so receive me, the prodigal and the defiled, Generously. With a contrite soul, now coming to You, we know, O Savior, as another, like I, have not sinned against You, below the deeds I have committed. But we know this again, because not the greatness of sins, nor the multitude of sins exceeds my God’s great patience and extreme love for mankind; but by the grace of compassion, warmly repentant, and purifying, and brightening, and creating light, partakers, fellow-participants of Your Divinity, doing things unenviably, and strange things both with the Angel and with human thought, conversing with them many times, as if with Your true friend. This boldness creates me, this one forces me, my Christ. And daring to show us Your rich kindness, rejoicing and trembling together, the grass partakes of the fire; and it’s a strange miracle, we irrigate without burning, just like the bush that burned without burning in ancient times. Now with a grateful thought, with a grateful heart, with grateful hands, soul and body, I worship and magnify and glorify Thee, my God, for blessed is Thy being, now and forever.
Below the images - and no customs, no way of action. Studiolessness is shamelessness, a manifestation of a shameless character. Give me - give me. Say what I want - say what I want. More - but better. Those who have sinned more, I have sinned more. Even if you take away - who, having learned. Vesey - You know. The will of zrish - you see the direction of my will, zeal, desire. My undone is what I have not yet done to the end, have not completed. Videste – they see (the form of the dual number). And what I haven’t done yet – something I haven’t done yet. God of all – God of the whole world (all – all things, universe). Trembling - full of trepidation. The undefiled are the most pure. Everyone who eats and drinks is everyone who eats and drinks. You have spoken - for You have spoken. Besides You - outside You, without You. In addition to finding me Your grace, having found me deprived of Your grace. A charmer is a tempter, a deceiver, that is, the devil. The flatterer will delight me - he will insidiously kidnap me. Deceiving - deceiving, leading astray. Warm - hot. I cry out and call. Just as you received the prodigal, just as you received the prodigal son. Wem...
as if another, like I, did not sin against You - I know that no one else sinned before You as I did. Below the deeds I committed, I did not do what I did. But we know this again, as - but I also know that. By the grace of compassion - by merciful compassion. Warmly repentant - hotly repentant. Svetlishi - you enlighten. If you are partakers of the light, you join in the light. Communions of Your Divinity do so unenviously - generously sharing with them a part of Your Divinity. Like a friend - like with friends. This boldness creates me - it gives me courage (this is the neuter, plural - translated as “this”, not “these”). This is what they look at me - it gives me wings. Together - together; here: and at the same time. I partake of the fire, being grass; I partake of the fire, being grass. Like the bush of old - like the bush (bush) in ancient times. Udes - members.
+ Those who have sinned more than the harlot, even though Thou knowest where Thou dwellest, having bought the ointment, I came boldly to anoint Thy noses... - see: Luke 7:36-47.
For you have said, my Lord: everyone who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, he abides in Me, and in Him I Am. See: John 6:56.
Just as you accepted the prodigal, and the harlot who came - again a reminder of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) and the sinner wife already mentioned in this prayer (Luke 7:36-47).
It’s a strange miracle, we irrigate, it’s not burning, like a bush that burned in ancient times without burning. – See: Ex.3:2-6.
By the mercy of compassion... chistishi, and brightishi... In the Greek text, the word “mercy” is conveyed by its frequent symbol: oil, oil..., which is perfectly supported by the words chistishi and brightishi (oil as a healing agent and as oil in a lamp).