Ode 1. Tone 2. Irmos.

‘To the Lord, who by his divine command dried up the raging untrodden sea, and guided the people of Israel through it on foot, let us sing; for he has been greatly glorified.‘

The ineffable descent of the Word of God, that is of the God-man Christ, is made known; he did not think that to be God was robbery, but is coming having taken the form of a servant from a pure Maiden, Child of God.

Christ comes willingly to serve the one whose form the fashioner now puts on. He enriches Adam in his penury with Godhead, granting him a strange refashioning and rebirth, as he is compassionate.