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☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy - Recessional/Dismissal Chant
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.In This prayer he [Simeon] confessed that the promise to him had been fulfilled. “For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples.” Fulfilled also are the words of the 90th psalm: “I will show him My salvation.”
With his clairvoyant inner eyes Simeon saw the future Sacrifice on Golgotha. He saw the One Who now lay in his arms already crucified for the sins of the world. For the Cross with the Righteous One crucified on it is that very “salvation which God has prepared”.