Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail | Yellow Street Sign Minimalist Pascha Icon | Trampling Down Death By Death | Orthodox Christian Art PosterI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. Isaiah 45: 2 3 Note the exactness of expression. He did not say 'opened the gates of brass,' but 'broke in pieces the gates of brass,' in

Now behold

be with us forever

4 Against Thee only have I sinned and done this evil before Thee

- St Romanos the Melodist

confirm and save Thy people

and night unto night proclaimeth knowledge

How it laments and wails

The Evangelist Matthew writes that the women came to the grave at dawn

that in the hour everyone shall receive in proportion to his merits

The earth quakes before them

When the perishable puts on the imperishable

+ St John Chrysostom