Nisibis 37

He wept, his voice resounded, he was weeping for her, Death, for Sheol, when he saw her treasures that had been laid bare, and he said, "How long will you endure, O rich one?" He was amazed at Gehazi and was astonished, a tree of the Kilikians, a fruit-bearing tree, a pit, over me it was not renewed, a tree was sent against the kings, in their cities, bound, to them their governors, when governors were at the gate, a tree would pass by the kings and go out. O city! Blessed is he who broke the yoke of Sheol with his cross. Distresses came, all the roots, Sheol her joy, over her rootlessness, she had a desert, if he who gave birth, a mighty force that constrains all, to Jacob, a root, cold and hot, and he gave a ransom when he was dark, a support that constrained her, two unjust ones. Death asked, "How great is the pain of Sheol, that new destructions have struck her, that the dead have cried out and come forth from her womb?" Like that word that I heard from Isaiah, and I rejoiced in it when he stood and said.

that they were silent when they heard how this destroyer, the earth, in one day and the begetter, the people, in one hour this is what was or what was not it is guarded for you again, and this is a deception that the king brought, I thought I did not know that he was a deceiver who guards the bones two voices, then, that were disturbing I heard from him that Isaiah said, for, that the virgin would bear and give birth and he said again that the earth would give birth behold, then, she gave birth to him, the virgin and she gave birth to him, Sheol the barren two wombs without weeping they were changed in him, the virgin and Sheol, both of them for the virgin rejoiced in her child for Sheol, then, she was embittered and distressed by his resurrection I saw in the fissure that Hezekiel who revived the dead when he was questioning and I saw bones that were confused and moved there was a heap of bones in Sheol where a bone follows its companion and a woman follows her husband there is no one there who asks and of those who question, these bones are alive without Sheol, I revived and stood the voice of Jesus, the commander of creatures

Sheol grew bitter, for it saw the dead rejoicing, who were joyful at its expense, at Lazarus when he came forth. “Go in peace, dead one, living one, bound by both, within whose weeping there is both outside and inside, whose sisters weep when he enters the tombs. Hunt for me, and come, weep at his death, weeping in the house of the living. Even Sheol, great mourning at his resurrection. Now this one has tasted the taste of his mourning, that one who wept over his beloved. The dead, how they love their beloved for Sheol, how they love their fathers! The limbs that the isle took, behold, they are cut off from me and taken away. If this one feels thus over the separation of that young man [who was commanded], blessed is he who showed the widow, in her only one, the ruin of her dwelling that was cut off. This pain, which makes a man feel for the eyes of a man, for his beloved, in the end it is he who grieves for all of it. For what the dead left to Sheol, for every man there is resurrection, and for me alone, abandonment. And how long will you bear with me?

Sheol saw all this, alone, that voice which cries out, the graves, which lay her waste and bring forth the dead from within her. If a man calls out in the midst of the thickets, he hears bitter battles, the sound of them. In the account of Jesus, if a man is astounded, he learns compassion and mercy. And if a man believed concerning Jesus that it is the key, for me it is a bolt, another key, the key of the door of Sheol cannot be moved, it falls. One is the key of the Creator, which opens her, and also opens at his coming. Bones can be made to join together, but it is the power of the Creator that is within. The fragments of the body can be made to adhere, but it is the hand of the maker. They can be made to set up forms, but it is the finger of the Creator, he who created and turned back destruction. He is able also to renew and to strengthen. No other god can enter and set up creations that are not his own. If there were another power, the earth would be much, that would come against me. In the depths of Sheol, he would have learned that one alone is God. The dead who erred and proclaimed that there are many gods, behold, they are imprisoned in Sheol, and their gods over them cannot move. For one God I know, and for his servants and his apostles I am wise.