{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec33.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec33.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec33.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\n\"S. Thomas's Sunday\"\nby S. John Damascene.\n\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03ad\u03c9\u03c3\u03cc\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5, \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad.\n\"On the rock of Thy commandments\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Fix me firmly, lest I slide:\n \"With the glory of Thy Presence\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Cover me on every side;\n \"Seeing none save Thee is holy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"God, for ever glorified!\"\nNew immortal out of mortal,\n \u00a0\u00a0New existence out of old:\n This the Cross of Christ accomplished,\n \u00a0\u00a0This the Prophets had foretold:\n So that we thus newly quickened,\n \u00a0\u00a0Might attain the heavenly fold.\nThou Who comprehendest all things,\n \u00a0\u00a0Comprehended by the tomb,\n Gav\u2019st Thy body to the graveclothes\n \u00a0\u00a0And the silence and the gloom:\n Till through fast-closed doors Thou camest\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy Disciples to illume.\nEvery nail-print, every buffet,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou didst freely undergo,\n As Thy Resurrection's witness\n \u00a0\u00a0To the Twelve Thou cam\u2019st to show:\n So that what they saw in vision,\n \u00a0\u00a0Future years by faith might know.\nCatavasia. \"Come, and let us drink of that New River.\" (p. 97)\n[No. 3 in Mr. Sedding's book.]","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. John Damascene: S. Thomas's Sunday, Ode III","type":"page"}