Ode 8. Irmos.

‘You made dew fall from the flames for the Holy Ones, and burnt up the sacrifice of the Just with water; for you do all things, O Christ, simply by willing them. We highly exalt you to all the ages’.

Elisaios cut the river’s streams with his cloak, foreshadowing the grace of Baptism which Christ, the only Benefactor, wrought when he entered them.

The glorious Prophet of old prefigured the grace of Baptism when he rendered the waters, which before were barren through salt, fruitful by the power of our God who has appeared.

Every valley will be filled with divine gifts, and every hostile hill made low, and the rough places will turn to smooth at the Appearing of God incarnate.

‘The God, who came down into the furnace of fire with the Hebrew Youths and turned the flame to dew, praise him his works as Lord, and highly exalt him to all the ages’.