From an Easter sermon of Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory, died 381 AD, was one of the three Cappadocian Fathers who helped the church hold to the understanding of the Trinity. He chaired the Council of Constantinople in 381AD, which finalised the Nicene Creed.   Yesterday the Lamb was slain and the doorposts were anointed, and Egypt bewailed her firstborn, and the Destroyer passed…