Irmos. Thou didst descend into earth’s lowest parts, O Christ, and break the eternal bonds that held the captives bound, and the third day didst rise out of the sepulchre, as Jonas from the whale.
Troparion. Keeping the seals entire, thou didst arise, O Christ, out of the sepulchre, who, at thy birth, didst not destroy the virgin bars; and thou hast op’d to us the doors of paradise.
Troparion. My Saviour, who, as God, didst to the Father bring thyself, of thine own will, an offering living and unsacrific’d also, arising from the grave, thou hast, along with thee, raised all Adam’s race.
Condakion. Tone viii.
If into the grave thou didst descend, Immortal One, yet didst thou overthrow the might of hades, and, as victor, rise, Christ God, unto the women bearing myrrh exclaiming, Hail! and giving peace to thine apostles, O thou that grantest resurrection unto them that fallen be.
Icos.
The Sun, that was before the sun, set once within a grave, the maidens bearing myrrh, preventing dawn, sought as the day, and unto one another cried, Come ye, O friends, let us with scents anoint the body that life-bringing is, and buried is, the flesh, that raiseth fallen Adam, that lieth in a grave. Let us go on, let us make haste, like as the Magi did; and let us bring the myrrh as gift to him that’s wrapp’d, not in the swaddling bands, but in a winding-sheet; and let us weep, and let us cry, Master, arise, who grantest resurrection unto them that fallen be.
Ode vii.
Irmos. He that delivered the children from the furnace became man, and suffered as mortal, and, by his suffering, endued the mortal with the beauty of immortality, even he, our fathers’ God, who only blessed and most glorious is.