Ode 9. Irmos.
Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
‘O Christ, you magnified the Mother of God who gave you birth, from whom you took a body with like passions to our own, our Creator, which was the deliverance from our faults. As with all generations we call her blest, we magnify you‘.
Rejecting all the stain of passion, let us take up as as befits the coming of Christ a prudent disposition; for he is coming forth without stain to bear flesh and to grant to all divine refashioning through the Spirit.
Looking to Christ, who humbles himself, let us be lifted up from the passions that seek the ground; with good zeal trained by faith not to think lofty things, let us be humbled in spirit; that by works which lift up we may lift up the One who is being brought forth.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.