We have thee as a fortress and a haven, and am accepted mediatress with God, whom thou didst bear, God-bearing one unwed, salvation thou of them that faithful be.[6]
XVIII. God is the Lord, and hath manifested himself unto us: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.[7]
XIX. Hear us, O God our Saviour, thou hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are far away upon the sea; and be merciful, be merciful, O Master, concerning our sins, and have mercy upon us. For a merciful and man-loving God thou art, and to thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and ever, and to ages of ages.
XX. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth, and to all ages.
XXI. Forgive, remit, concede, O God, our sins, voluntary and involuntary, those in word and in deed, those in knowledge and in ignorance, those in the day and in the night, those in thought and in intention; concede them all to us, as being good and lover of mankind.
XXII. And may the mercies of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ be with all of you.[8]
NOTE III.
THE EASTER CANON, ETC. TO ELUCIDATE CHAPTER XVII.
Troparion. Tone v.
Christ is risen from the dead, death by death down doth he tread, and on them that dwell in graves he bestoweth life.
Verse. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered, and let them that hate him flee from before him.