“The Lord clothed himself with humanity, and with suffering on behalf of the suffering one, and bound on behalf of the one constrained, and judged on behalf of the one convicted, and buried on behalf of the one entombed, rose from the dead and cried out aloud: “Who takes issue with me? Let him stand before me. I will set free the condemned. I gave life to the dead. I will raise up the entombed. Who will contradict me? ”

— Melito of Sardis and Alistair Stewart-Sykes, On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quatrodecimans (Yonkers, NY: St. Vladamir’s Seminary Press, 2001), 65.