THE SHROUD OF TURIN

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THE HOLY WEEK
THE HOLY PASCHA
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Historical Facts

• The Great Lent
• Preparation Week 7 days
• Holy 40 days 40 days
• Lazarus Saturday 1 day
• Holy Pascha Week 7 days
• The most sacred week of the year
• Used to be celebrated separate from the great
  lent until the 2nd century
• Pascha Passover

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Last Friday of Great Fast

• Unction of the Sick
• The only time in the church that we pray the
  Unction of the Sick
• Prayed after Raising of Incense.
• Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the
  elders of the church, and let them pray over him,
  anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
  And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and
  the Lord will raise him up. And if he has
  committed sins, he will be forgiven.
  (Jam 514-16)

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Last Friday of Great Fast

• Why do we pray the Unction at the end of the
  Fast?
• If fasted properly, people may be weak
• It is prayed to strengthen them during Holy Week
• There are 7 prayers The seven spirits of God
• Whoever participates must be
• A believer (it is a sacrament)
• Fasting
• Should have confessed (every sacrament begins
  with confession and is completed with Communion)

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Lazarus Saturday

• Six days before the Passover (Cruicifixion)
• "Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came
  to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been
  dead, whom He had raised from the dead" (Jn
  121).

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Lazarus Saturday

• Holy Week is between 2 resurrections Lazarus
  and Christ
• Blessed and holy is he who has part in the
  first resurrection. Over such the second death
  has no power(Rev 206)
• 1st Resurrection Baptism (Rom 64)
• Sufferings Repentance, carrying the cross (Lk
  923)
• 2nd Resurrection Resurrection of the Dead - We
  look for the Resurrection of the dead
  (Orthodox Creed)

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Two Resurrections

• Lazarus Someone else raised him
• Christ Raised Himself
• Lazarus Raised with same mortal body
• Christ Raised with glorified immortal body
• Lazarus Came out wrapped in grave cloths
• Christ Rose freed of the grave cloths

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Lazarus Saturday

• After Baptism, we rise with same mortal body, we
  go through temptations and sufferings, and we
  live a life of repentance, then we die, to be
  risen up again in the last day.
• Lazarus Saturday A renewal
• of vows/commitments
• to live repentance
• to be glorified.

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PALM SUNDAY

• What Did Jesus Do?
• He left Bethany and entered Jerusalem riding on a
  colt on Nissan 10
• (similar to the Passover lamb)
• The crowd were shouting OSANNA
• Jesus entered the temple and kicked out those who
  were selling and buying.
• Jesus returns back to Bethany

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PALM SUNDAY

• What Does the Church Do?
• Title of the day
• Accepting Christ as a King
• All hymns are in joyful tunes
• Procession of the Cross Morning Incense
• The Cross is the sign of His Kingdom
• We are invited to accept him as a king in our
  life.
• Palms signify peace, royalty, strength
• 12 stations 12 Gospel

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PALM SUNDAY

• What Does the Church Do?
• Regular liturgy except we read FOUR gospels

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PALM SUNDAY

• What Does the Church Do?
• The general funeral Prayer
• Participate in the Lords death
• The church focuses on the Passion of the Lord
• The church sets us in the mood of passion week,
  by accepting the death of Christ in our life
  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
  shall also live with Him (Rom 68)

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Pascha Week

• Pascha Passover.
• The Passing-over of the Angel of Death
• Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the
  houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I
  will pass over you (Exo 1213)
• Christ is our Passover
• For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed
  for us. (1Cor 57)
• Through Christs Blood, we are saved from the
  devil, the punishment of sin and death

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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE

• We follow the Savior step by step
• We pray outside the alterWhy?
• All attention is to the passion of our Savior
• No liturgies except.. Why?
• No Agpya prayers Why?
• All prayers in a sad tune

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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE

• We pray outside the alter, WHY?
• - we were cast outside of the Paradise and
  remained outside, until the crucifixion
• - Christ suffered outside of Jerusalem
  therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the
  camp, bearing His reproach. Heb 1313

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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE

• No liturgies except on Thursday because the
  Passover lamb was kept for 4 days (Exo 123-7)

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Pascha Week Prayers

• Location of Prayers - In the second division of
  Church, outside the camp
• We were cast outside of the Paradise and remained
  outside, until the crucifixion
• When Christ tore the middle wall (the veil of
  the temple)
• The priest opens the curtain of the Sanctuary on
  the 12th hour of Good Friday
• Christ suffered outside of Jerusalem Therefore
  let us go forth to Him, outside the camp,
  bearing His reproach. (Heb 1313)

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Pascha Week

• Arrangement of the Hours
• The new day starts with the night before or the
  eve
• So the evening and the morning were the first
  day. (Gen 15)
• The Hours EVE DAY

1st 600 am
3rd 900 am
6th Noon
9th 300 pm
11th 500 pm
1st 600 pm
3rd 900 pm
6th Midnight
9th 300 am
11th 500 am
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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE
OVERVIEW ON DAYS
SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT P A
P A P A P A P A P A
P N D N D N D N D N D N D
MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT
NO LITRUGIES
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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE
DAILY PRAYERS
DAILY PRAYERS (e.g. Wednesday)

• DAY
• (Wednesday morning)

NIGHT (Tuesday evening)
1ST 3RD 6TH 9TH 11TH
1ST 3RD 6TH 9TH 11TH
Good Friday 1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 12th
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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE
Contents of Each Prayer

• Prophecies
• Thine is the power, the glory, the blessings, and
  the majesty for ever Amen O Emmanuel Our God
  and Our King...
• Replaces the Agpeya psalms
• It is not man made, Revelation 712-13

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PASCHA GENERAL OUTLINE
Contents of Each Prayer

• A psalm of David
• Sad tune
• The Holy Gospel
• The exposition
• End of each night or day
• Litanies
• The conclusion (O King of Peace)

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Monday of the Holy Pascha

• What Did Jesus Do?
• He left Bethany to the temple in Jerusalem
• On the way, He saw a fig tree that has leaves but
  no fruits. Christ curses the tree saying No man
  will eat fruit of you for ever
• Jesus spent the day in the temple teaching
• The priests try to catch him with a mistake By
  what authority do you do these things?
• Christ returns back to Bethany

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Monday of the Holy Pascha

• What Does the Church Do?
• Title of the day
• FRUITFUL LIFE NOT APPEARANCE
• DONT DECEIVE YOURSELF
• All prophesies, psalms, and gospels focus on this
  objective. Examples
• First Hour Isaiah 51-9 What shall I do any
  more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it?
• Sixth Hour Exodus 327-15 They Have made for
  themselves a calf and worshiped it!

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Tuesday of the Holy Pascha

• What Did Jesus Do?
• He left Bethany to the temple in Jerusalem
• On the way, They saw the fig tree and remembered
  Christs words
• Jesus spent the day in the temple teaching
• The Pharisees try to catch him with a mistake
  Should we pay taxes to Caesar?
• Christ talks about the end of the world and his
  second coming in detail. He gives a lot of signs
  for the last day.

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Tuesday of the Holy Pascha

• What Did Jesus Do?
• Christ emphasized the need to be always prepared
  by several proverbs
• The ten virgins
• The Talents
• The wedding ceremony
• Christ returns back to Bethany

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Tuesday of the Holy Pascha

• What Does the Church Do?
• Title of the day
• BE WATCHFUL
• MARAN-ATHA -- The Lords coming is near
• All prophesies, psalms, and gospels focus on this
  objective. Examples
• Ninth Hour Genesis 6-9 The flood and Noahs
  Ark
• Eleventh Hour Isaiah 3025 A prophesy about
  the end of the world

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Tuesday of the Holy Pascha

• What Does the Church Do?
• Very Important THE ELEVENTH HOUR

• CHRIST
• Talked in detail about judgement and the last day
• Determined the time of his crucifixion for the
  first time
• Left the temple and NEVER came back to it a sign
  of the collapse of the Jewish religion

• CHURCH
• Adds My Good Savior to Thine is the power....
• Reads Psalm 449 Thy Throne, O God, is forever
  and ever with the Royal Tune

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Wednesday of the Holy Pascha

• What Did Jesus Do?
• Christ spent the whole day in Bethany
• A day of contradictions
• Judas contacts the chief priests to betray Christ
• A woman breaks an alabaster box of ointment of
  spikenard, very precious, and pours it on
  Christs head.

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Wednesday of the Holy Pascha

• What Does the Church Do?
• Title of the day
• WHERE IS MY HEART
• WHAT WOULD I OFFER TO CHRIST
• All prophesies, psalms, and gospels focus on this
  objective.
• Very Important Third Hour of Thursdays Eve
• Psalm 5418 His words are smoother than oil,
  yet they are darts (Royal tune)
• Gospel Mark 143-11 The woman with ointment
  and Judas betrayal!

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The Great Thursday

• What Did Jesus Do?
• That was the 14th of Nissan, the day of slaying
  the Passover lamb
• Christ asks Peter and John to prepare the
  Passover
• They prepare for the Passover in St. Marks house

• The disciples fight who is the greatest.
• Before supper, Christ washed the disciples feet
• Christ gives the disciples his body and blood
• Christ prophesizes about his betrayal
• Judas leaves to go to the chief priests

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The Great Thursday

• What Does the Church Do?
• We pray in the sanctuary
• We start with the Matin rising of incense
• The book of acts Selecting a new apostle instead
  of Judas. It is scary!!!!!!
• Procession to rebuke Judas (OURSELVES) in the
  opposite direction

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The Great Thursday

• What Does the Church Do?
• Pascha prayers (1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th) about
  preparations for the Passover
• The prophesies of the ninth hour are very
  significant
• Genesis 221-19 The sacrifice of Isaac
• Genesis 1417-20 Melckizedek
• Isaiah 611-6 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me

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The Great Thursday

• What Does the Church Do?
• The Liturgy of the Blessing of Water
• Objectives
• HUMBLENESS SALVATION THOUGH WATER (BAPTISM)
• We pray with annual tune in front of a basin
  filled with water
• Several prophesies about salvation through water
  (e.g., crossing the Red Sea and Jordan River
• Gospel John 131-7 -- Christ washes the feet of
  the disciples
• At the end, the priest washes the feet of the
  congregation

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The Great Thursday

• What Does the Church Do?
• The Liturgy of the Eucharist
• Objective The sacrifice of Christ
• Annual tune
• No Agpeya, no Catholic Epistle, no Book of Acts
• Gospel Matthew 2620-29 -- Christ gives his body
  and blood to the disciples
• No prayer of Reconciliation, no commemoration of
  the saints
• Fraction of the Sacrifice of Isaac

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The Great Thursday

• What Does the Church Do?
• During communion, we pray the 11th hour of the
  Pascha
• Prophesy from Isaiah 52
• And we saw him but he had no form nor beautyHe
  was a man of suffering and acquainted with the
  bearing of sicknessHe was dishonored and not
  esteemed. He bears our sins and is pained for
  usHe was wounded on account of our sins, and was
  bruised because of our iniquitiesHe was led as a
  sheep to the slaughter and as a lamb before the
  shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
• Gospel from John13
• And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to
  Judas Iscariot, And after the sop, Satan entered
  into him

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The Eve of the Great Friday
FROM NOW ON

• We add The Lord is my strength, my praise and
  has become my salvation
• We read four gospels each hour from Matthew,
  Mark, Luke, and John
• Except the first hour where the four gospels are
  from John 13-17 (The Paraclete)

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The Eve of the Great Friday

• First Hour
• Christs last talk with the disciples and his
  promise to send the Holy Spirit
• His prayer to the Father in John 17
• Third Hour
• Christ leaves with the disciples on their way to
  Gethemane
• Before the cock crow, you shall deny me three
  times

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The Eve of the Great Friday

• Sixth Hour
• Christ prays in Gethemane while the disciples are
  asleep
• Watch ye and pray, lest you enter into temptation

• Ninth Hour
• Judas arrives with the soldiers to arrest Jesus
• Peter cut the right ear of the servant of the
  high priest

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The Eve of the Great Friday

• Eleventh Hour
• Psalm Why did the heathen rage, and the nations
  imagine vain things? The kings of the earth
  stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves
  together against the Lord, and against his Christ
• Gospels First trial in front of the chief
  priests and all the council. Peter denies for
  three times

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The Great Friday

• First Hour
• Christ is being sent to Pontius Pilate
• Pilate sends Him to Herod

• Third Hour
• Christ goes back to Pilate
• Pilate sentences him to death

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The Sixth Hour of the Great Friday

• Prophesies
• Numbers 21 The brass serpent
• Isaiah 53
• Amos 8 The sun shall go down at noon, and the
  light shall be darkened on the earth by day

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The Sixth Hour of the Great Friday

• HYMNS
• TAI SHOREE
• VAI ETAV ENF
• This is He who presented upon the cross, an
  acceptable sacrifice for the salvation of our
  race
• Pauline Epistle
• But God forbid that I shall glory, save in the
  cross of our Lord Jesus Christ

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The Sixth Hour of the Great Friday

• Part From the Agpeya
• O MONO GENEES
• O Only Begotten, eternal, and Immortal Word of
  God.Holy Mighty, who by weakness showed forth
  what is greater than power.
• AGIOS (sad tune)
• Psalm and Gospel
• Lights are off

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The Sixth Hour of the Great Friday

• Prayer with the right thief
• Remember me O Lord when you come into your
  kingdom
• . O Master .
• . O Holy-One ...
• End of the Sixth Hour and lights are back

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The Ninth Hour of the Great Friday

• HYMNS
• TEE SHOREE
• VAI ETAV ENF
• Pauline Epistle
• And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled
  Himself, and became obedient unto death, the
  death of the cross
• Part from the Agpeya
• Agious
• Psalm and Gospels

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The Eleventh Hour of the Great Friday

• Prophesies
• Exodus and Leviticus Passover
• Regular Pascha hour

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The Twelfth Hour of the Great Friday

• Prophesies
• Lamentations of Jeremiah
• Jonah
• Psalm 44 The Royal Tune
• Your Throne, O God, is forever and ever
• Gospels

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The Twelfth Hour of the Great Friday

• Exposition and Litanies
• METANIAS in all directions
• Procession
• The Burial and GOLGOTHA
• The Book of Psalms

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CONCLUSION
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT
SALVATION? HEBREW 23
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Spirituality of Pascha Week

• Re-live every step which the Lord Christ took
  during His last week on earth
• Intense repentance and regret
• confession
• ascetic fasting
• constant prayers with tears
• Prostrations
• readings

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• But He was wounded for our transgressions, He
  was bruised for our iniquities The
  chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by
  His stripes we are healed(Isa 535)

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APOCALYPSE

• Objectives
• Heaven is open, therefore we read the book of
  Revelations
• Transition between sadness and joy
• Let us think about what Christ has done for us
  and praise him for that

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APOCALYPSE

• We start with this psalm 151
• I am the youngest among my brethren and a youth
  in my fathers house..My brothers are handsome
  and greater than me and the Lord delighted not in
  them. I went out to meet the Palestinian, so he
  cursed me by his idols. But I withdrew his sword
  that was in his hand and beheaded him and removed
  the reproach from the Israelites Alleluia

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APOCALYPSE

• Layout
• Praises and prayers of the prophets
• Matins raising of incense
• Prayers of the third and sixth hours
• Reading of the book of revelations
• Prayers of the ninth hour
• The Liturgy

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APOCALYPSE

• The first Procession
• Starts with Let us thank Christ our Lord hymn
  of Maran o-onh
• This is to proclaim their joy in the Lords
  salvation over Satan (the spiritual Goliath)

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APOCALYPSE

• The first Hos the 1st praise of Moses
• This tells the story of the Lords deliverance of
  His people by Moses, through the Red Sea.
• This was a symbol of the Lords deliverance of
  Satan (pharaoh) who enslaved us by sin
• Called the praise of the Lamb (Rev 151-3)

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APOCALYPSE

• The 2nd praise of Moses(Deu 32 1-43)
• These are Moses' last words to the children of
  Israel. In it he reminds them of Gods aid to
  them and calls them to repent and seek the Lord.
• It ends with joy in the his salvation
• The church is calling us to repentance so that we
  may partake of the joy of the Lords salvation
  and enter the heavenly Jerusalem.

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APOCALYPSE

• We read several praises from the Old and New
  Testament
• Hannah (mother of Samuel), this is the prayer of
  thanksgiving of Hannah when she brought her son
  Samuel into the temple, fulfilling her promise to
  God
• The church likewise thanks God for granting her a
  Son (Christ) to redeem her from death.

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APOCALYPSE

• The prayer of the prophet Daniel
• Three young men in the furnace
• As the 3 young men were condemned to death, but
  they came out alive, likewise humanity was
  condemned to death, but Christ granted it life
  through his death
• Whoever wishes to see the Lord, must pass through
  the fire of temptations and overcome it with the
  power of God.

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APOCALYPSE

• Jonah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, king Solomon, Baruch,
  Habakkuk, etc.
• We read the story of Susanna (very Important)
• As God sent Daniel to save Susanna, God sent his
  Son Jesus Christ to save everyone

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APOCALYPSE

• The 2nd procession the praise of the three young
  men
• This is a portion of the Praise of Azarius while
  in the furnace, as he proclaims that hell follow
  the Lord under any condition (even in the
  furnace)
• After the church head all the prayer and praises,
  it goes around the church assuring the Lord that
  it will follow him chanting we follow thee ten
  ouweeh enthok

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APOCALYPSE

• We pray the first, third, and sixth hour of
  Saturday similar to regular pascha
• first half with sad tune, second with annual
• Readings preparations for resurrection

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APOCALYPSE

• We read the book of revelation
• Ninth hour
• Holy liturgy

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APOCALYPSE

• Psalm 151
• Tells us the story of David how God transferred
  him from poverty to glory
• Tells how David transferred the children of
  Israel from shame to victory and salvation
• The church reminds us of how the Lord saved us
  from spiritual Goliath, which is Satan, whom he
  slew on the cross.