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§ 1. " poison of the myrrh of death which Adam ate brought death to all his descendants to all generations." From the service in the Gezza appointed for the holy Nativity.

§ 2. "My enemy daily casts me into unprofitable lusts because he perceives that my mind is inclined to evil, and daily he wars against me by exciting my spirit within me, and by causing my eyes to look upon iniquity. Look Thou, therefore, upon me, O, tainted as I am with every kind of wickedness through the instigation of the Wicked one, who in his malice has made me a derision. O eternal , exert that power which formed me from the dust to repel the Rebel who has taken me captive, and have mercy upon me." Prayer appointed in the Khudhra for the third Sunday of the summer season.

§ 3. "In mercy, O, set up Thy peace within my soul, that it may quench the fiery arrows of lust within me, wherewith mine enemy assaults me continually. … Set it up in my