{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec55.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec55.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec55.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nCanon for Apocreos\nby Theodore of the Studium\n\u1f49 \u039a\u03cd\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9.\nThe Lord draws nigh, the righteous Throne's Assessor,\n The just to save, to punish the transgressor:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Weep we, and mourn, and pray,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Regardful of that day;\n When all the secrets of all hearts shall be\n Lit with the blaze of full eternity.\nClouds and thick darkness o\u2019er the Mount assembling,\n Moses beheld the Eternal's glory, trembling:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And yet he might but see\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0God's feebler Majesty. p. 182\n And I\u2014I needs must view His fullest Face:\n O spare me, Lord! O take me to Thy grace!\nDavid of old beheld, in speechless terror,\n The session of the Judge\u2014the doom of error:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And what have I to plead\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For mercy in my need?\n Nothing save this: O grant me yet to be,\n Ere that day come, renewed and true to Thee!\nHere, fires of deep damnation roar and glitter:\n The worm is deathless, and the cup is bitter:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There, day that hath no morrow,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And joy that hath no sorrow:\n And who so blest that he shall fly the abyss,\n Rais\u2019d up to God'S Right Hand, and speechless bliss!\nMy soul with many an act of sin is wounded:\n With mortal weakness is my frame surrounded: p. 183\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My life is well nigh o\u2019er:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Judge is at the door\n How wilt thou, miserable spirit, fare,\n What time He sends His summons through the air?","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: Theodore of the Studium: Canon for Apocreos. Ode IX","type":"page"}