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Just as one receiving the rays of the burning sun in the ether
Suddenly becomes blind and dull, he stands amazed.
The divinity of inexhaustible radiance, free from darkness:
Than which nothing is simpler, and nothing freer.
The nature of the great Jehovah transcends all things,
He enters all things, He is present as the nearest to all things.
He is not contained by spaces, He passes through all places, He fills
The infernal with the celestial; God is entirely everywhere.
What He once created from nothing by the power of the Word,
These He rules, and nourishes all things with His own vigor.
Hence the goodness of the Father and His providential care
Shine forth, hence the virtue and the beauty of justice.
Although nothing is simpler than this Divinity: yet holy
Is the Triad in the highest simplicity.
For God is Triune: the Father, and the Wisdom of the Father,
The Son, and the Third Flame binding the two.
One nature in three, one Vigor in three, and the age [is]
Equal; nothing is later in time and nothing prior.
With covered feet and face hidden by a veil,
The heavenly host sings the thrice-holy Divinity.
With humble countenance and lowered breast, let the crowd
Devoted to Christ sing the thrice-holy [Divinity].
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