Incarnation of Christ

You have grasped the Word and suffered the mystery, bearing in your womb one who by nature cannot be described.

The prophet Isaiah was amazed at the virgin mystery and cried out, for he had heard a voice of shouting from the city and the temple, saying, 'A voice of shouting was heard from the city, a voice of shouting was heard from the temple' (Isaiah 40:3).

This voice of shouting was heard saying that before the one in labor gave birth, before the pain of labor came, she escaped and gave birth to a male, indicating that John is called by a voice, the leaping is called a shouting, Elizabeth is named the city, and the womb is proclaimed the temple.

The mystery has all together speed and birth and virginity and wonder, because the child is not from mixture.

The holy Mary did not suffer as Eve did, for she escaped and gave birth to a male without waiting for the limits of nature, as the mystery of the economy is premature.

Our Lord Jesus Christ has opened the bosoms of hospitality, made apostles, perfected evangelists, among whom he established the blessed Luke as a rhetorician and teacher of the church.

This Luke is a thrice-blessed evangelist, a Syrian by race, a doctor by profession, a disciple of the apostles, who later followed Paul until his martyrdom and then served the Lord without distraction and preached the word.

Saint Luke, adorned with a multitude of virtues and shining with divine gifts, passed away at the age of eighty-four in Thebes, the metropolis of Boeotia, filled with the Holy Spirit.

He had written the gospel, which, through its prologue, reveals that there were earlier writings and that it was necessary to provide an accurate account of the economy for the benefit of the Greek faithful.

The holy evangelist Luke rested on October 18th, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and power, together with the immortal Father and the all-holy, life-giving Spirit, now and forever, unto the ages of ages, as we say, 'Hail, favored one, the Lord is with you' (Luke 1:28).

Amen.

Greek

συνέλαβες Λόγον καὶ ὤδινες μυστήριον, ὡς θρόνος ἐν γαστρὶ ἐβάστασας ὃν κατ' οὐσίαν οὐ περιγράφει τις. 9 ∆ιὰ τοῦτο ὁ προφήτης Ἠσαΐας τὸ παρθενικὸν ἐκπληττόμενος μυστήριον ἐβόα· «Φωνὴ κραυγῆς ἐκ πόλεως, φωνὴ κραυγῆς ἐκ ναοῦ» ἠκούσθη. Τί δὲ λέγεις, ὦ προφῆτα; Ἀσφαλὲς τὸ αἴνιγμα καὶ βαθὺ τὸ νόημα. «Φωνὴ κραυγῆς ἐκ πόλεως, φωνὴ 2 ἐκ ναοῦ» ἠκούσθη· φωνὴν τὸν Ἰωάννην καλεῖ, κραυγὴν τὰ σκιρτήματα λέγει, πόλιν τὴν Ἐλισάβετ ὀνομάζει, ναὸν τὸ σπήλαιον κηρύττει. «Φωνὴ κραυγῆς» ἠκούσθη λέγουσα· «πρὶν τὴν ὠδίνουσαν τεκεῖν, πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὸν πόνον τῶν ὠδίνων, ἐξέφυγε καὶ ἔτεκεν ἄρ σεν.» Καὶ ἔλαβεν τοῦ μυστηρίου πάντα ὁμοῦ καὶ τάχος καὶ τόκον καὶ παρθενίαν καὶ θαῦμα, ὅτι γὰρ οὐκ ἐκ μίξεως τὸ βρέφος. «Πρίν», φησίν, «ἐλθεῖν τὸν πόνον τῶν ὠδίνων»· οὐκ ἔπαθε γὰρ τὰ τῆς Εὔας ἡ ἁγία Μαρία. «Ἐξέφυγε γὰρ καὶ ἔτεκεν ἄρσεν»· οὐκ ἀνέμεινε φύσεως ὅρους ἡ χάρις· ἀπρόθεσμον γὰρ τὸ τῆς οἰκονομίας μυστήριον. «Χαῖρε τοίνυν κεχαριτωμένη, ὁ κύριος μετὰ σοῦ»· ὁ γὰρ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς τοὺς τῆς φιλοξενίας ἀνέῳξε κόλπους, ἀποστόλους θαλαμεύει, εὐαγγελιστὰς τελειοῖ, ἐξ ὧν καὶ τὸν μακάριον Λουκᾶν ῥήτορα καὶ διδάσκαλον τῆς ἐκκλησίας κατέστησεν. 10 Ἔστιν δὲ οὗτος ὁ τρισόλβιος εὐαγγελιστὴς Λουκᾶς Σύρος τὸ γένος, ἰατρὸς τὴν τέχνην, μαθητὴς δὲ τῶν ἀποστόλων γενόμενος, καὶ ὕστερον Παύλῳ παρακολουθήσας μέχρι τοῦ μαρτυρίου αὐτοῦ, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα δουλεύσας τῷ κυρίῳ ἀπερισπάστως ἐκήρυξεν τὸν λόγον. Ἀρεταῖς παντοίαις κοσμούμενος καὶ χαρίσμασιν θείοις διαλάμπων, ὀγδοήκοντα τεσσάρων ἐτῶν γενόμενος ἐκοιμήθη ἐν Θήβαις τῇ μητροπόλει τῆς Βοιωτίας, πλήρης Πνεύματος ἁγίου. Οὗτος ἔγραψε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον δηλῶν διὰ τοῦ προοιμίου τοῦτο ὅτι πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἄλλα ἐστὶ γεγραμμένα καὶ ὅτι ἀναγκαῖον ἦν τοῖς ἐξ Ἑλλήνων πιστοῖς τὴν ἀκριβῆ τῆς οἰκονομίας ἐκθέσθαι διήγησιν. Ἀνεπαύσατο δὲ ὁ ἅγιος Λουκᾶς ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς μηνὶ ὀκτωβρίῳ ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῃ, χάριτι τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος σὺν τῷ ἀθανάτῳ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ παναγίῳ καὶ ζωοποιῷ Πνεύματι, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν. 3

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Hesychius of Jerusalem, In sanctum Lucam (Greek).

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