Leah and Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah, cherished those beloved ones—the twelve they bore. Their children belonged to humanity, but their offspring also belonged to the Lordship; all their offspring are Yours, O Lord of their brothers.
So that Your Resurrection might be believed among the deniers, they placed You inside a sealed tomb: they sealed the stone and stationed guards. It was for You that they sealed Your tomb, O Son of the Living One.
When they buried You, if they had simply left You and gone away, there would have been room for the lie that thieves had stolen You, O Giver of life to all. But when they schemed to seal Your tomb, they only increased Your glory.
Daniel was a type of You, and Lazarus also: one was in a den sealed by the nations, and one in a tomb opened by the People. See—their signs and their seals rebuked them.
Their mouths would have remained open if they had left Your tomb open. Instead they shut Your tomb, sealed and stamped it, and so shut their own mouths. Without realizing it, when they covered Your tomb, all the slanderers covered their own heads.
By Your Resurrection You convinced them concerning Your birth: the sealed womb and the closed tomb—the Pure One in the womb and the Living One in the tomb—were witnesses to You. The sealed womb and the sealed tomb testified together.
The womb and Sheol cried aloud about Your Resurrection. The sealed womb conceived You; the closed Sheol brought You forth. Neither did the womb conceive You according to nature, nor did Sheol give You up according to nature.
The tomb to which they entrusted You was sealed, to guard the dead; the womb was virgin, and no man had known it. The virgin womb and the sealed tomb, like trumpets, cried into the ears of a deaf people.
The sealed womb and the stamped stone stood among their accusers. They slandered the conception as the seed of a man, and the Resurrection as the theft of a man. The seal and the signet rebuked them and persuaded them that You are heavenly.
The People stood between Your birth and Your Resurrection. They wronged Your birth, but Your death answered them; they rejected Your Resurrection, but Your birth refuted them. Your birth and Resurrection were like two wrestlers striking the mouth that slandered.
They also went looking for Elijah among the mountains. By searching for him on earth they confirmed all the more that he had been taken up; their search testified to his ascent because it did not find him.
If even prophets who had some awareness of Elijah's ascent disputed about his being taken up, how much more did the impure slander the Son? Yet by means of their own guards He rebuked them when He rose.