Ode 4. Irmos.

‘Foreseeing your ineffable mystery, O Christ, the Prophet cried out: You have ordained the mighty grace of Baptism for all those who receive it with faith, for the redemption of our offences’.

You are hastening for baptism, which is source of forgiveness for all mortals burdened by wicked falls and living wickedly in depravity, having promised to grant them repose of soul as you are pitying.

Participating in my flesh, you give me a part in your Divinity; for being without change of the Father you take in your hands, Saviour, what was fashioned, sin excepted, appearing as man, purifying, O Word, like by like.

Drink and anointing and Spirit are the tokens of your seal, O Saviour, and its mystic gifts, and the honours, worthy of love, of the divine gifts; for the Father has sent you, the Only-begotten, as ransom to the world.