But in your resurrection you persuade men...

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But in your resurrection you persuade men concerning your birth. You were pure in the womb that was sealed and alive in the tomb that was sealed. The womb and the tomb, being sealed, were witnesses to you and to your divinity.

The belly and hell cried aloud of your birth and your resurrection: The belly, which was sealed, conceived you. Hell, which was closed up, brought you forth. Nature did not cause either the belly to conceive you or hell to give you up! Thus do they proclaim that you are of heaven.

Sealed was the tomb to which they had entrusted you, that it might keep you dead, that is, safe, and virgin was the womb, which no man knew. Virgin womb and sealed tomb, like trumpets, proclaimed him in the ears of deaf people.
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- Ephraim Syrus, from the readings for Holy Saturday in The Treasury of Daily Prayer.

8th December 2011

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