Homily on the Resurrection of Christ · §6 · Epiphanius of Salamis

A Petition for the Captives

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We are your people of faith; even though we are unworthy of your philanthropy, nevertheless we are sheep of your Church, gathered together as one. This entreaty we bring to you, the poor, on behalf of a multitude of people in captivity; priests and peoples, youths and text ends approach in your three-day resurrection.

Greek

πίστεώς σου λαός· εἰ καὶ ἀνάξιοι φιλανθρωπίας, ἀλλ' ὅμως πρόβατα τῆς σῆς Ἐκκλησίας ἐσμὲν ἐν ἑνὶ συνηθροισμένοι. Ταύτην σοι τὴν ἱκεσίαν οἱ πτωχοὶ ὑπὲρ πλήθους λαοῦ αἰχμαλωσίας, ἐν τῇ σῇ τριημέρῳ ἀναστάσει προσάγομεν ἱερεῖς καὶ λαοὶ, νεανίσκοι καὶ

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A vibrant sermon celebrating Christ's resurrection and its transformative power for believers.

Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310/320–403) is the name on this homily. Scholars do not treat it as a sermon by the bishop of Cyprus. The collection it belongs to is later.

This English is the Homily on the Resurrection of Christ. It is a festal sermon of praises and petitions. It is not the homily on the burial of Christ's body, which tells of the descent into Hades.

A reader meets the feast of the resurrection, the move from shadow to reality, prayers for the needy, the persecuted, and captives, and a doxology to the Trinity.

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Translated from PG 41 – 43 (Greek)

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