The Great Canon Á-? On Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent - Page 40 of 59
6.
David of old composed a song, painting it as in a picture by
which he exposes the deed he had done, crying: Have
mercy on me, for against Thee only have I sinned, Who art
God of all. Cleanse me.
(Psalm 50)
7.
When the Ark was being carried on a wagon, and when
one of the oxen slipped, Uzzah only touched it and
experienced the wrath of God. But avoid, my soul, his
presumption and truly reverence divine things.
(II Kings 6:6)
8.
You have heard of Absalom, how he rose against nature.
You know his accursed deeds and how he insulted the bed
of his father David. But you have imitated his passionate and
pleasure-loving cravings.
(II Kings 15; 16:21)
9.
You have enslaved your free dignity to your body, my soul,
for you have found in satan another Ahitophel and have
consented to his counsels. But Christ Himself scattered
them, that you may at all events be saved.
(II Kings 16:20)
10.
Wonderful Solomon, who was full of the grace of wisdom,
at one time did evil in God's sight and fell away from Him.
And you, my soul, have resembled him by your accursed life.
(III Kings 11; Ecclus 47:12-20)
11.
Carried away by the pleasure of his passions, he defiled
himself. Alas, the lover of wisdom is a lover of loose women
and estranged from God! And you, my soul, have in mind
imitated him by your shameful pleasures.
(III Kings 3:12; 11:4-12)
12.
You, my soul, have rivaled Rehoboam who would not
listen to his father's advisors, and that vicious slave
Jeroboam the apostate of old. But shun such mimicry and
cry to God: I have sinned, have compassion on me
.(III Kings 12:13. -
20)