Orthodox: Could you please explain this icon?

[gurneyhalleck1]

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if you could explain all the elements of this lovely icon? I have seen it for years and would love to know who the two men at the bottom represent, who the two people that Our Lord is grabbing, and who the surrounding characters are. It’s a fascinating icon. I would love any Orthodox to give me some insight into it. God bless.

Happy Easter to all!

http://josephpatterson.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/resurrection.jpg

 

[John_Larocque]

Never mind Adam and Eve (prototypes of humanity being lifted out of Christ’s descent into hell), what about the beardless man to the left?

ochlophobist.blogspot.com/2010/04/raising-abel.html

There’s a historical overview here:
dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_7/cross.htm

An iconographer has set up a page on this here:
imageandlikeness.com/meaning-of-icons-v-18.html

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Thanks, John! I’ll check out the links tonight…

Never mind Adam and Eve (prototypes of humanity being lifted out of Christ’s descent into hell), what about the beardless man to the left?

ochlophobist.blogspot.com/2010/04/raising-abel.html

There’s a historical overview here:
dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_7/cross.htm

An iconographer has set up a page on this here:
imageandlikeness.com/meaning-of-icons-v-18.html