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[... the angel]ic hosts having descended in honor of the sacrifice of your death, and bringing forth incorruptible crowns from the Father of Light, [crowning] you.

CANON OF THE ANNUNCIATION. MIDDAY HYMN (*šarakan* [hymn]). END.

*Kcʿurd* (refrain/hymn verse). Mode 8 (Plagal 4th, *Dk*): Mother of God, tabernacle of the uncontainable Light, [the Sun] of Life; who became the dawn of the Sun of Righteousness, and shone light upon us who sat in darkness: wherefore we all ever magnify you. Incorrupt temple and unburnt bush, who bore [and] carried within you the inextinguishable Fire of the Godhead, by which the burning flame of the passions of our nature was quenched: wherefore [we all ever magnify you]. Living ark of the covenants of the New Testament, through whom the passage into the Promised Land flowed abundantly, the Word having been imprinted in you by the Spirit: wherefore [we all ever magnify you].