TY - JOUR AU - Grzywaczewski, Józef PY - 2021/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Maryja jako hetmanka na podstawie hymnu Akatyst JF - Vox Patrum JA - VoxP VL - 80 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.31743/vp.12275 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vp/article/view/12275 SP - 221-238 AB - <p>&nbsp;In the introductory strophe to the hymn Acathistos there is an invocation <em>tȇ hypermachȏ stratȇgȏ</em> addressed to Mary. The word <em>stratȇgós</em> means: great army commander (general); grammatically it is <em>masculinum</em>. There was no female form of this word because women have been never charged by such a function. Female form was created by the article <em>ȇ</em> in Dative (<em>tȇ</em>). It must have sounded naturally or seriously; otherwise, the author would not have introduced it into this religious hymn destined to be sung in the church. Even, if this invocation was introduced during the siege of Constantinople in 626, it corresponds to the text of the hymn: there are other titles expressing the conviction that Mary is not only full of grace, but also full of power. She can help people not only in their spiritual difficulties, but also in a danger in their contemporary lives. Such a conviction was based on the two fragments of the Bible (Gen 3: 14 and Rev 12: 1-18). Those fragments were referred by the theologians of the patristic time to the Church and to Mary as well. The inhabitants of Constantinople prayed Mary for protection against the Persian aggression; and the Persian army left the district of the capital without having attacked it.</p> ER -