Ethiopic Sinodos

Ethiopic Sinodos — Horner 1904 English translation of the Statutes — sourcepage 213

1 66 STATUTES OF THE APOSTLES healing and for life to him who shall receive of it in faith, and in the glory of thy only beloved Son, for to thee is glory and might with the Holy Spirit now, etc. The prayer for the holy waters of the Yurdanos, which 5 are mingled with sweet scent. As the priest stands towards the east with the proper vestment, and while the clergy stand in their several orders of sequence, he shall say, having first finished the ordinary form of prayer : God, my Lord almighty, thou madest heaven and earth and lo sea and all that is in them ; and thou madest man in thy form and in thy likeness ; and thou placedst him in the garden, that he might live an immortal life ; but he, having fallen into error by Satan, the enemy of our kind, became the cause of death upon us all : yet thy goodness did not 15 therefore desert us, but thou sentest thine only Son our Lord Jesus Christ into the world, and not to judge the world, but to save the world by him. He therefore having come, changed our birth into the new (birth) which is by this water and Spirit of regeneration. And for this ao cause I call upon thee, my Lord, maker of all, who mingledst and unitedst mortal with immortal, having made living man a combination of the two, giving move- ment to the created body, and soul which thou causedst to dwell (in it) : stir this water and fill it up with that 25 which is of the Holy Spirit, that it may become water and also Spirit of regeneration to those who shall be baptised in it Cause, my Lord, that they may become little sons and daughters of the holy name ; and purify them and wash them with water and instruct them with 30 the Holy Spirit, through the coming of our Lord Christ with the Holy Spirit May it be to all who shall be