We give glory to you, Lord, who raised up your cross to span the jaws of death like a bridge by which souls might pass from the region of the dead to the land of the living. We give glory to you who put on the body of a mortal and made it the source of life for every mortal. You are incontestably alive. Your murderers sowed your living body in the earth as farmers sow grain, but it sprang up and yielded an abundant harvest of all those raised from the dead.
St. Ephrem the Syrian, Sermo de Domino Nostro 4.9
Locus Communis 