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[a] company with the wise holy virgins.

[Is it] with our nature, which you clothed yourself with from [...

...You were nailed to the wood of the Cross, undoing...

us from sins, from the bonds of the forefather [Adam],

Did [He] absolve this [one] also from transgressions for thy sake?

... of the holy Sufferings; led in with full lanterns.

After [your] voluntary death on the Cross, you were placed in [the

[in] a new tomb, by a three-day burial

on earth; [and] created us anew [as] living [beings].

[O You who] summon back those who descended with You into the dust of death.

... with the sound of the trumpet; brought in with full lamps.

[As] the myrrh-bearing women [were] seated and la[menting]...

...[they lament]ed tearfully, as [one] dead, un-...

...full of hope, the Eternal Living [One]... fo[r...]

[By] their holy tears, cleanse [me].

[bring/lead] this [soul] from sins, [and] bring [it] in with full lamps.

The foundations of hell having been shaken at the si[ght...]

...[to see / tremble before?] You, [O terror] of those below. You brought forth the souls...

who in the prison bound the prince of death

[...-born / -genitor]... With the departed souls of the saints, re[pose...]

[Chant]: “The souls of the departed, with filled lamps.”

With joy, the heavenly hosts to the ear[th...]

[... from heav]en descended to earth, when [You] arose