Psalm 140:5

This is a kind of supplementary book which unfolds to us the ways and dealings of God when Israel is brought back. It begins by recounting the vicissitudes of their return, and their being sunk down again, after having got into the land; but coupled with this, there is the testimony that God's mercy... Read More

1. ...The Psalm which we have just sung is in many parts somewhat obscure. When by the help of the Lord what has been said shall begin to be expounded and explained, you will see that you are hearing things which you knew already. But for this cause are they said in manifold ways, that variety of ex... Read More

Psalm 107(106) Confitemini Domino 1 "O give thanks to the Lord for he is good; for his love endures for ever." 2 Let them say this, the Lord's redeemed, whom he redeemed from the hand of the foe 3 and gathered from far-off lands, from east and west, north and south. * * * 4 Some wandered in the dese... Read More

The Service Of The Sunday Vespers Priest: Blessed is our God always, now and for­ever and to the ages of ages. People: Amen. Reader: Come, let us worship and bow down before our King and God. Come, let us worship and bow down before Christ our King and God. Come, let us worship and bow down before C... Read More

The Kneeling This Office, on the Vigil of the Feast of the Holy Spirit, that is, Monday after Pentecost, is usually sung immediately after the Divine Liturgy for the Sunday of Pentecost. Priest: Blessed is our God, now and always and forever and ever. Reader: Amen. Come, let us worship and bow down ... Read More

Vespers with the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts Priest: Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Reader: Amen. Come, let us worship God our King and bow down before Him. Come, let us worship Christ God our King and bo... Read More

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“Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers … Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 124:6-8). Fowlers were professional bird-catchers in the days before firearms. They captured birds ... Read More

Arrogant (5244) (huperephanos from huper = over, above, + phaíno = shine) is the haughty person pictured with his head held high above others. The man who is huperephanos is the one who shows himself above. This man who because of his feeling of personal superiority, regards others with haughtiness.... Read More

Phulasso (5442) means to watch, to carry out the function as a military guard or sentinel (cp Ac 23:35, 28:16), to keep watch, to have one's eye upon lest one escape, to guard a person that he might remain safe (from violence, from another person or thing, from being snatched away, from being lost).... Read More