Hymn : Of the Ten Virgins
Date : Holy Tuesday
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9
The night before the night, and before the shadows darkness has suddenly seized all men,
and now we are as of old the Egyptians imprisoned in the
cloud of plagues,
storm of earthquakes, darkness of wars
l.
And wrath will not be satisfied with this: the Red Sea awaits all men
2,
Gehenna there, not temporarily, but for eternity. For Jesus our Savior was
greatly irritated that they had not believed in him when he was working miracles.
So he in return visited with scourges the iniquities of the unbelievers,
so that at least at this price we are convinced and proclaim: "Open"
1. The words [Greek Text] correspond to the three
terms that, in the Septuagint, describe the ninth plague of Egypt:
[Greek Text] (Ers. 10, 22). The Hebrew text ignores this storm.
2. Ino Mikhaïlidou understands [Greek Text] as a future tense:
"the Red Sea will receive us all". But [Greek Text] still has the sense of "waiting" in Romanos.