Ode 9. Irmos.
Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
‘Having first tasted delight on the Master’s welcome and his immortal table in the poor Cave, now let us run to Jordan to see the strange mystery, host to the splendour from above’.
Leave Bethlehem for the country of Jordan, you who delight in wonders, and there you will see deeds mystically accomplished, and Christ advancing for Baptism; for he has taken flesh to refashion Adam.
The Creator, begotten of the Father before the ages, has been brought to birth in the last times, incarnate without change from a pure Maiden, Child of God, both God and man, as he wishes to refashion Adam through Baptism.
You have come in reality and not mere fantasy, as one among many, seeking Baptism, alone guiltless by nature; for you have come to bury the guilt of mankind by being baptized in the waters.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.