Homily on the Burial of Christ's Body · §12 · Epiphanius of Salamis

Doxology to the Resurrected Christ

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Having raised Christ and having made him life-giving; to him belongs the glory and the power, together with his unoriginated Father and with his all-holy and good and life-giving Spirit, now and always and unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

Greek

Χριστὸν ἀναστήσαντα, καὶ ζωοποιήσαντα· ᾧ ἡ δόξα, καὶ τὸ κράτος σὺν τῷ ἀνάρχῳ αὐτοῦ Πατρὶ, καὶ τῷ παναγίῳ καὶ ἀγαθῷ καὶ ζωοποιῷ αὐτοῦ Πνεύματι· νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.

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A sermon on Christ's burial: Joseph of Arimathea, and the silence of the earth as God rests in the flesh.

Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310/320–403) was bishop of Cyprus. This homily was written for Holy Saturday, the day the church remembers the burial of Christ.

This English is the Homily on the Burial of Christ's Body. It praises Joseph of Arimathea, who asked for the body and buried it, and it tells of Christ's descent into Hades.

A reader meets the descent into Hades, the breaking of the gates, the defeat of the powers that held the dead, and the resurrection of Adam and Eve.

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Translated from PG 41 – 43 (Greek)

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