Homily on the Resurrection of Christ · §7 · Epiphanius of Salamis

A Prayer for All Believers

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Virgins, elders with the younger, infants with mothers, every soul of those believing in you: may you redeem them all from every looming threat, and make them worthy of your kingdom, through the grace and the love for mankind of your only-begotten Son and Lord God.

Greek

παρθένοι, πρεσβῦται μετὰ νεωτέρων, νήπια μετὰ μητέρων, πᾶσα ψυχὴ τῶν πιστευόντων εἰς σέ· οὓς λύτρωσαι πάντας πάσης τῆς ἐπικειμένης ἀπειλῆς, καὶ τῆς σῆς βασιλείας ἀξίους ποίησον, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ μονογενοῦς σου Υἱοῦ καὶ ∆εσπότου Θεοῦ

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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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