Οἶκος Ζ'
Joseph's Troubled Heart
Joseph struggles with doubt regarding Mary's pregnancy until he receives the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
Storm-tossed within by conflicting thoughts, the chaste Joseph was troubled. Looking on you, still unwed, O Blameless One, he suspected a secret union. But when he learned that your conception was from the Holy Spirit, he said: Alleluia.1
Read the original Latin
Ζάλην ἔνδοθεν ἔχων, λογισμῶν ἀμφιβόλων, ὁ σώφρων Ἰωσὴφ ἐταράχθη· πρὸς τὴν ἄγαμόν σὲ θεωρῶν, καὶ κλεψίγαμον ὑπονοῶν Ἄμεμπτε· μαθὼν δέ σου τὴν σύλληψιν, ἐκ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου, ἔφη· Ἀλληλούια.
Notes
- 1 ↩κλεψίγαμον literally suggests a 'stolen' or clandestine sexual union; rendered as 'secret union' to keep the suspicion grave without coarse modern slang.
Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos companion
Never lose the rhythm again
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