Page:Liturgy of John Chrysostom (1866).pdf/40

32 thy holy Diaconate in His kingdom, always: now, and ever, and to ages of ages.



Virtuous Joseph, having taken down from the tree of the Cross Thine all-pure Body, folded It in a white linen cloth, embalmed it with precious spices, and laid It in a new tomb.

In the tomb bodily, in Hades with Thy soul; in Paradise as with the thief, and on the throne with the  and the, Thou fillest all space, O  uncircumscribed.

Thy tomb, O, is manifested truly as bringing life; as more beautiful than Paradise, as more dazzling than any king's palace, as the source of our resurrection.