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...of the judge. He received the severe blow of the scourge because of the stripes of the first-created [man]. Make me, who from feet to head am afflicted with unbearable pains, whole again once more as by the graces of the font [of baptism]. Instead of the holy-gleaming, adorned vestment with which You clothed Aaron, the laborers of the vineyard of Israel placed a crown of thorns [upon You]. Remove from me the thorn of sins which my enemy struck into me, and heal the sting of the wound, that the scars of sins may be blotted out.

RUBRIC: *Orthī* [Stand]. [The reading] of the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew (Chapter 27: Verse 1).

[RUBRIC: Initial words:] "When morning came." [RUBRIC: End:] "and the mother of the sons of Zebedee." ([Matt.] 27:1–56)

[RUBRIC:] SECOND AND FOURTH TONES

[Mode 6] Did they give you gall to drink, and [Mode 8] vinegar in [your] thirst? You drank willingly so that the tastes of the most bitter fruit might become sweet.