From Saint Ephrem the Syrian (+ 373 A.D.), doctor of the Church and the greatest poet of the patristic age. His feast day is 9 June.
The womb and Sheol shouted with joy and cried out about Your resurrection. The womb that was sealed, conceived You; Sheol that was secured, brought you forth. Against nature the womb conceived and Sheol yielded. Sealed was the grave which they entrusted with keeping the dead man. Virginal was the womb that no man knew. The virginal womb and the sealed grave like trumpets for a deaf people, shouted in its ear.
Hymns on the Nativity 10, 7-8; Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium v. 187, 59.
