Joy of All Joys Tenderness Theotokos Iconographic Based on Traditional Orthodox Iconography | Red Design | Orthodox Christian Canvas ArtThe Tenderness Icon is remarkable since the Theotokos is depicted without her Child, or even before His conception at the moment of the Archangel's greeting, when she is the Most Pure Vessel of the Holy Spirit Saint Seraphim [of Sarov] commanded us to call this Tenderness Icon [the one he kept in his cell], the Joy of all Joys. Fr. Pavel Florensky

a conclusion drawn from the otherwise explicitly astronomical content of the Psalm and from its Christological significance

For many dogs have encircled me

that you may do it

- Ephesians 4:22-24

and godly lives

but to enable us to climb from that cross to Heaven – because in essence

nor crying

will not prevail against us

prior to St Constantine's Edict of Milan which legalized the Christian religion in the Roman Empire

If He is dead

many more false Christs will come

for they call it a bottomless place