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This prayer is used in many liturgical services.
==Septuagint==
The Righteous Simeon was one of the seventy scholars who came to Alexandria to translate the Holy [[Scripture]]s into Greek. The completed work was called "The [[Septuagint]]," and is the version of the [[Old Testament]] used by the Orthodox Church.
St Simeon was translating a book of the Prophet [[Isaiah]], and read the words: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a Son" (Is 7:14). He thought that "virgin" was inaccurate, and he wanted to correct the text to read "woman." At that moment an [[angel]] appeared to him and held back his hand saying, "You shall see these words fulfilled. You shall not die until you behold [[Christ]] the Lord born of a pure and spotless Virgin." Tradition says he died at the great age of 360.
==Hymn==
[[Troparion]] (Tone 4)
*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=411 Symeon the God-Receiver, Anna the Prophetess] ([[GOARCH]])
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100409 Holy and Righteous Simeon the God-Receiver] ([[OCA]])
*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/s/phn78.htm Icon of St. Simeon the Host of God]
*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/festal/lkg04.htm Icon of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple]
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[[ro:Simeon, primitorul de Dumnezeu]]
