Aposticha 4 for Great Friday Vespers
Verse: Holiness becomes your house, O Lord, for ever.
When the heavenly Powers saw you, O Christ, falsely slandered by lawless men, they were amazed at Your long-suffering, which our words cannot express, and when they beheld the stone of Your tomb, being sealed by the hands the pierced Your incorruptible side; they still rejoiced at our salvation and cried out to you, ‘Glory to your condescension, O Lover of man!’