XXIX.  Many indeed are the miracles of that time:  God crucified; the sun darkened and again rekindled; for it was fitting that the creatures should suffer with their Creator; the veil rent; the Blood and Water shed from His Side; the one as from a man, the other as above man; the rocks rent for the Rock’s sake; the dead raised for a pledge of the final Resurrection of all men; the Signs at the Sepulchre and after the Sepulchre, which none can worthily celebrate; and yet none of these equal to the Miracle of my salvation.  A few drops of Blood recreate the whole world, and become to all men what rennet is to milk, drawing us together and compressing us into unity.

ΚΘʹ. Πολλὰ μὲν δὴ τοῦ τότε καιροῦ τὰ θαύματα: Θεὸς σταυρούμενος, ἥλιος σκοτιζόμενος, καὶ πάλιν ἀναφλεγόμενος (ἔδει γὰρ τῷ Κτίστῃ συμπαθεῖν καὶ τὰ κτίσματα): καταπέτασμα σχιζόμενον, αἷμα καὶ ὕδωρ τῆς πλευρᾶς χεόμενον: τὸ μὲν, ὡς ἀνθρώπου, τὸ δὲ, ὡς ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον: γῆ σειομένη, πέτραι ὑπὲρ τῆς πέτρας ῥηγνύμεναι, νεκροὶ ἀνιστάμενοι εἰς πίστιν τῆς τελευταίας καὶ κοινῆς ἀναστάσεως: τὰ ἐπὶ τῷ τάφῳ σημεῖα, τὰ μετὰ τὸν τάφον, ἃ τίς ἂν ἀξίως ὑμνήσειεν; Οὐδὲν δὲ οἷον τὸ θαῦμα τῆς ἐμῆς σωτηρίας: ῥανίδες αἵματος ὀλίγαι κόσμον ὅλον ἀναπλάττουσαι, καὶ γίνονται καθάπερ ὀπὸς γάλακτι πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις, εἰς ἓν ἡμᾶς συνδέουσαι καὶ συνάγουσαι.