An icon lamp catches the sunlight at the noonday reading of the Third and Sixth Hours.
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The icon lamp in the Chapel of Saint James, First Bishop of Jerusalem, at the beginning of Mesonyktikon, the Midnight Office. When pilgrims enter the Sinai basilica, they light candles in prayers for those who are living, or in commemoration of those who have gone to their rest. ‘They bee great offerers of Candles’, as the English merchant Richard Chancellor wrote when he visited Moscow in 1553. (The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqves and Discoveries […] Sinai Greek 172, folio 67 recto, the beginning of the Gospel according to Mark. Ἀρχὴ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. […] Sinai Greek 172, folio 66 verso, the illumination of the holy Evangelist Mark. Sinai Greek 172, folio 11 recto, the beginning of the Gospel according to Matthew. Βίβλος γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, υἱοῦ Δαβίδ, υἱοῦ Ἀβραάμ. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. […] Sinai Greek 172 is a manuscript of the Four Gospels. On folio 197 recto we read the following inscription. + Ἐτελειώθη σὺν θ(ε)ῶ ἡ θεόπνευστος βίβλος αὕτη· διὰ χειρὸς ζαχαρίου πρεσ(βυ)τ(έρου) πανελαχίστου, του πραιτωριότ(ου)· ἐξεπιτροπῆς θεοδώρου μ(ε)γ(άλου) ὑπάτ(ου) καὶ τεποτ(ηρη)τ(οῦ) κολωνείας τοῦ γαβρᾶ· καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ συνεύνου εἰρήνης· πρὸς σκέπην καὶ διατήρησιν καὶ […] Sinai Greek New Finds Majuscule 2 is a manuscript of the Epistles of Saint Paul in parallel Greek and Arabic, dated to the early tenth century. On folio seven recto, we read in Galatians 1:3-4, ‘Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself […] Sinai Greek Two is a beautifully written manuscript of the tenth century, containing the text of Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus. The generous margins around each page are filled with commentary written in a minute script. These annotations are drawn from the writings of twenty-four different authors. Cyril of Alexandria composed two commentaries on the […] A thirteenth century Sinai icon of the Nativity of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Σήμερον γὰρ ὁ χρόνιος ἐλύθη δεσμός, ὁ διάβολος ᾐσχύνθη, οἱ δαίμονες ἐδραπέτευσαν, ὁ θάνατος ἐλύθη, παράδεισος ἠνεῴχθη, ἡ κατάρα ἠφανίσθη, ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐκποδὼν γέγονεν, ἡ πλάνη ἀπηλάθη, ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐπανῆλθε, καὶ τῆς εὐσεβείας ὁ λόγος πανταχοῦ […] |
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