Image of ʾEwosṭātewos

Since many brothers who persevered and struggled have written and recited your honored image of praise: “Ewosṭātewos, Adam, the image of God; accept me, let me recite the writing of your praise, a law for God and his Gospel.” Salutation to the memory of your name, whose news was proclaimed in the expanse of the world in his lifetime. Ewosṭātewos, Abel, for the matter of violence and his lament; my sins are many, if they are compared with his; your mercy intercedes for me before God. Salutation to the hair of your head, full of night’s dew; and salutation to your head, which was anointed with oil. Ewosṭātewos, Enoch, from Adam the elder; your mouth, Michael, chief of the angels, steadfast; let my enemy say, “He will be jealous of you, Lord.” Salutation to your face and your eyebrows, shadow; to the light of your eyes, the light of a fruit. Ewosṭātewos, Noah, for righteousness, faithful and heir of abundance; for your children, thousands, that they may be granted joy; contend with the Creator and the seal of the covenant.

Salutation to your eyes, to the flesh of your body, their number; and to your ears, plants from hearing true speech. ʾEwosṭātewos, ʾAbrəhām, foundation of faith; to my mind, Loṭ, be merciful to him, for kings have envied him today, five. Salutation to your cheeks, which have shone with fasting; and to your nose, which has been filled with the fragrance of ʾAryām. ʾEwosṭātewos, Loṭ, brother of ʾAbrəhām; your heart, Māryām, mother of God, glorious; be merciful to me, a humble man. Salutation to your lips and to your mouth, the second; like the mouth of an angel which became the bread of the consecration, his food. ʾEwosṭātewos, bright, more than the planets, Saturn; pierce my heart, know the King of kings, my Lord. I have begged you in the wilderness, by his power and strength. Salutation to your teeth and to your tongue, the first; the greatness of Christ, God, who is the herald for the world. ʾEwosṭātewos, Yəsḥāq, heir of the throne of ʾAbrəhām; your rebuke, Nātān, and your teaching, Kūsī; they teach me counsel for a servant, a man.

Salutation to your word, the Gospel of Divinity, which has been proclaimed; and to your breath, the fruit whose fragrance has been diffused. ʾEwosṭātewos, Yaʿəqob, from whom you begot a singer; ʾEfrēm, bless me openly; with your staff, bow down and the joints of the hand. Salutation to your throat, drunk with the wine of wisdom; and to your neck, bound with the rope of the world, the last. ʾEwosṭātewos, ʾIyob, heavy with the burden of suffering; upon my flesh, ʾElfāz, if the Creator wills; with a pure sacrifice, conceal his errors. Salutation to your collarbone, a precious yoke of the cross; and to your chest, a bruised instrument of punishment from the rope of torture. ʾEwosṭātewos, the priest of the Most High God; he revealed, he was revealed from a chosen region. Salutation to your neck and to your bosom, a bed that is narrow, a refuge for the soul of every exile. ʾEwosṭātewos, Yōsef, a man of wisdom; your freedom, Noḥ, and your patience, ʾIyob, stand before me before the Father. Salutation to your hands and to your fingers, united; from the hand of the Most High God, those who received the mystery. ʾEwosṭātewos, Musē, by whom you showed a wonder; for my thoughts, if counsel counsels; for Christ, having offered up, you ascended the mountain.

Salutation to your horn and to your mother in wonder; by the word of praise and mockery. ʾEwosṭātewos, Aaron, whom you taught, you revealed; by pure incense and by abundant prayer, for my humanity, Rubel, correct my errors. Salutation to your lungs and to your ten fingers, which are broad, which are for the giver of the honored bread. ʾEwosṭātewos, ʾAwse, and her inheritor of the earth; bring me into inheritance within the holy city, from whose stone flows milk and honey. Salutation to the nails of your hands and to your shoulder which you cast off; a portion of grace and you made it abundant. ʾEwosṭātewos, Finḥas, whom you made to hear the proclamation; for our assembly, if strife, destroy it; for our salvation, zeal and haste, arise. Salutation to your belly, which was tested by the burning of hunger, and to your heart, which was transformed with it into light. ʾEwosṭātewos, Sāmuʾel, head of our assembly; why for us has the measure of the covenant and the pure sanctity become difficult? Salutation to your kidneys and to your mind, which is high, which stands continually before the Lord who is able. ʾEwosṭātewos, Dāwit, ʾArke, Nātan, and Berzelli; for my release from the killing pain, by the word of the sweet psalm, the hymn of thought.

Salutation to your entrails and to their creation and arrangement; by the interior of the belly which are united. ʾEwosṭātewos, Elijah, teacher of Elisha and Obadiah; for the man Naboth, of the bread of the vineyard, his error; by his fruit, he revealed your authority, woe. Salutation to your loins and to your waist, the reed; the key of faith, one. ʾEwosṭātewos, Elisha, the bread of life, the unleavened; for my soul, a widow, which has no third day; her lamentation, look, and have mercy upon her. Salutation to your shoulders and to your knees which bow; to the great king before his throne, white. ʾEwosṭātewos, Solomon, for the daughter of Zion, the counsel of the merchant; your mighty ones, sixty warriors of killing and judgment; for my soul, let them stand in her festival. Salutation to your feet and to your sandals which walk; on the path of wisdom in the ten. ʾEwosṭātewos, Sutuel, who was named Ezra; your love, a harp, and your taste, a flute; for the singer of the world who sows her love. Salutation to your joints and to your vertebrae, the limbs; between them which are united. ʾEwosṭātewos, Daniel, one of the wise; for my enemy Amalek, until his tribe perishes; for your humanity, Moses, woe, let not a hand be joined.

Salutation to the nails of your feet, which do not touch the ground, and to your stature, which is like the stature of Adam in his form. ʾEwosṭātewos, Joshua, who clothed you with a garment; two women who observe the measure; in the land of my enemy they build a house. Salutation to your full countenance of grace and majesty, and to the departure of your soul in glory from the world of fasting. ʾEwosṭātewos, the second to Merdekoryos who was zealous; for the people of my inheritance, when I had concealed their tongues, the counsel of him who scatters for my soul a wound. Salutation I say to the burial of your body first, and to your burial again in a garment of perfect fragrance. ʾEwosṭātewos, prophet, you beheld the standing; your word, an angel, stood among the blind; to my ear, Joshua, let him proclaim peace. Salutation, salutation to your tomb in Armenia, and to your throne in Ethiopia. ʾEwosṭātewos, the companion of the Lord of Kenya; your eye, Mary, with her sister Mary; why do they continually weep before him? Salutation to the crown of your head and to your beautiful form; to your tunic, again, which showed its brightness. ʾEwosṭātewos, a sanctuary adorned with the gold of virtue; if it were smooth, the table of my mouth is fixed; for its healing, a miracle by your taste, O pure one.

Now I have offered to your greatness, O God, a morning and evening sacrifice. ʾEwosṭātewos, Paul, a barber of shadow and truth. Tell me, I have accepted the offering, the acceptance of a blessed sacrifice, which his tongue brought to me, the messenger. Salutation to you, ʾEwosṭātewos, a donkey and a spiritual anchor, for those who sail on the distant sea, a balance and a measure of righteousness. Salutation to you, ʾEwosṭātewos, a shoot and a vine of wine, a fountain of understanding, a branch of law, and a sprout of wise counsel. Salutation to you, ʾEwosṭātewos, a priest in the midst of the seven deacons, the prayer of the saints which ascends before the lambs, when the Seraphim sing. Salutation to you, who is like you among the glorious saints, a vigilant sailor and a gentle teacher, who guards the keys of judgment. Salutation to you, your wonders, the ear that hears is astonished, and the eye that sees is perplexed at you, for in you is the power of authority. Salutation to you, the fruit of my lips is barren, like the produce of a barren field, a vigilant farmer and a cultivator, for the time of harvest has arrived.

Salutation to you, for before you is a salutation in the word of this blessing. This is the time of blessing. Come, come to blessing. From us, our hope is this.