"Между тем Господь приблизился к самой преисподней адской,...

“Meanwhile, the Lord approached the hellish hell itself, where the first created Adam was especially strong in bonds, whom the Lord, holding the hand, reigned, saying: Sleep up and rise again from the dead, and Christ will sanctify thee. I am your God, and I command with authority come out to prisoners, who are enlightened in darkness, who have risen to resurrect; therefore I order you also: sleep up, because I didn’t create you to be kept in hell; resurrect from the dead; I am the life of the dead; resurrect My likeness, created in My image ; get up, we will get out of here; you are in Me, and I in t we make up an inseparable face; for you I, your God, have become your son; for you I, your Lord, have taken the form of a slave; for you I, who have exceeded heaven, have come down to earth and to the underworld; for you man I, in the dead, freedom became a man; for you, who was banished from the garden, I was betrayed by the Jews in the garden and crucified on a tree. Look at My spit on my face: I took spitting for you to restore you to primordial dignity; look at the stricken My lanitas: I accepted murders, so that your corrupted face can be restored to My time; look at my ulcerated ridge: for this I have accepted the scourging in order to destroy the burden of your sins lying on your ridge; Look at My hands pierced by a nail: I have spread them on the cross for you; look at my pierced feet; they were nailed to the cross because of your legs, which flowed to the tree of crime; I suffered in order to restore you and open paradise; I have tasted bile for you, in order to heal the bitter pleasure that you received from sweet food for you; tasted ósta, in order to destroy the power of the bitter cup, from which your death flowed; accepted the burden in order to erase the writing of your sins; took a cane in order to sign freedom to the human race; My rib healed the wound of your rib, my dream aroused you from hell sleep; the spear with which I was perforated stopped the weapon facing you: so, rebel, let us go out of here; the enemy brought you out of paradise, and I will not restore you to paradise, but to the throne of heaven; I forbade you to touch the figurative tree of life, but here I am - life is connected with you; before I ordered the Cherubim to keep the entrance to paradise, and now I command the Cherubim to serve you; You hid from God in nakedness; but now you hid Me, the true God, in you; You put on leather robes to prove your shame; but I, God, put on the bloody garment of your flesh: so arise, come out of here, - from death to life, from corruption to incorruption, from darkness to eternal light; stand up, come out of here - from sorrow to joy, from slavery to freedom, from captivity to heavenly enjoyment, from earth to heaven: I died and rose again for this, and I have the living and the dead; stand up, get out of here; for my heavenly Father awaits the dead sheep; ninety-nine sheep, that is, angels await the slave of his Adam when he is resurrected, when he rises and ascends to God. The Cherubic throne is destined; those who have exalted you to heaven are quick in the execution of commands; heavenly villages are prepared; treasures of goods are open; the kingdom of heaven has been prepared before centuries; "Such blessings await a person as they cannot see an eye, without hearing an ear, and without keening on a person’s heart."

St. Epiphanius of Cyprus