The faithful, however, met with
the true rising, for they have been freed from the bondage and servitude of the
old Law, and they have been buried with Christ in baptism (cf. Rom 6.4), and
with him they have been raised and live in eternal life. With him they suffered
persecution and torment, and with him they have been glorified in the kingdom
of heaven. (Maximus the Confessor, The Life of the Virgin 51 [trans. Stephen
J. Shoemaker; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012], 79)
