A Hymn of Ephrem which Confirms the Divine Mystery of Redemption from the Throne

In the vision of the sapphire [throne] He gathered Himself up and sat upon it. He unfolded and filled the heavens, though everything was in His fist. Himself He shewed in space and shewed Himself everywhere. We fancied that He was in space but everything was filled with Him. He who was small that He might be on a level with us, was great that he might enrich us. He was small and great again that He might make us great. Had he been small and not great, He had been small and would have made us small. Because he was fancied to be weak, therefore He was small and great.

Let us marvel how that by being small He made our smallness great! Yet if He had not been great also He would have made our mind small since it would have thought him weak and would have been made less in that it thought so [i.e. that Christ was just 'little']. He is a Being of Whose greatness we are not capable, nor even of His littleness. He was great; we got ourselves bewildered; and He was little; and we got ourselves into guilt. In all things he laboured with us. He willed to teach us two things, that it was He and yet it was not He. He made Himself a countenance in His love that His servants might look upon Him. Again that we might not harm ourselves by thinking 'this is His form' from form to form did He change in order to teach us that He had no form, and though He departed not from the shape of man, yet in His changes of it He did not depart from it. [Ephrem, Hymn Thirty One]

The hymn begins with an acknowledgement that Jesus became a child (go to original source and see for yourself) and then he proceeds to argue that this member sat in the 'sapphire throne' attributed to Moses in Exodus 34. I have already written about the throne of St. Mark as a reflection of this Scripture. Does the reader see what Ephrem's one gospel community understood regarding Jesus' baptism and redemption in the throne that ends the narrative? If not more will follow. I will keep developing ideas from Ephrem until the reader understands that a 'redemption' baptism like that of LGM 1 HAD TO HAVE BEEN A PART of the original gospel.