Image of the Sabbath of the Christians

A discourse composed by one of upright faith. When he set his mind to the work of composition, on every Sunday and Sabbath it is to be read. He said, "This book of song, whose stanzas are arranged in two and five heads." When I learned that by your name they sanctify the ark, I undertook to renew you according to the measure of my small understanding. Holy Sabbath of the Christians, queen of the rulers, be silent. Those who denied you desired death and sought punishment. With the five days which were created before it, on the day of redemption and judgment for the Lord, the day of his mystery, for it passes quickly and its memory is obscured. For Israel, from their Sabbath to our Sabbath, how great is its glory! You who do not know, people, understand by this. Peace to your existence before Oryares and light. Holy Sabbath of the Christians, queen of all times. Those who deny you are destroyers. They will not escape from woe nor be saved from judgment. If Noah and Moses the prince stand.

Salutation to your being planted without deceit, O plant of the seventh [day]. From the womb of the daughter and from before the creations, they go forth. Holy Sabbath of the Christians, day of hearing for the Lord. Your praise, when it came into the world, the prophets proclaimed and the righteous knew. Salutation to your memory in the mouth of all, which has been praised. Gregory of lofty renown, as he spoke in Rome: the Holy Sabbath of the Christians is the rival of the Sabbath of the Jews. And for Nonnus also, he abandoned his time; your grace, he wrote much. Salutation to your renewal from one end of the world to the other end of the world, O Holy Sabbath of the Christians, rest of all the dead. The angels and the righteous for your sheep, one from the hand of the serpent that drinks the blood of men. Salutation to your being blessed by the mouth of the Creator God. In this world of error and in the world of righteousness that is last, O Holy Sabbath of the Christians, which is not hidden. You are magnified and exalted and greatly honored above the Sabbath of the prophet, which was a breaker of the six.

Book of your annals, the measure of the Sabbath, while I speak I have hastened. In each of its revelations, salutation has begun your songs. Sabbath of the Christians, writing for the scribe of all within his history. Upon you, as the apostles preached, there is none who fasts and none who kneels to bow. From the secret of Monday and Tuesday, and from the secret of Wednesday, the beginning of reckoning. From the secret of Thursday also, and from the secret of Friday, and from the secret of Saturday, again the day of the star. For you whom I have consecrated, O Sabbath of the saints, the people. Bless me with the measure of this utterance, by the blessings of the womb and the breast. We have finished today the hymn of the Sabbath, its song. The assembly of Christians, all, and the laity, not. Come, let us say to him with praise and prostration. Glory to the Lord, and blessing to us, for him who created, that we may worship.