"For today I see equality of honor between heaven and earth, and a way up for all those below to things above, matching the condescension of those on high...For nothing done by God from the beginning of time was more beneficial to all or more divine than Christ's nativity, which we celebrate today."
"He is born without suffering, as he was conceived without passion..."
"For it is the property of God alone not to partake of the lives of others but to be partaken of, and to have as partakers those who rejoice in the Spirit."
"Now since it was God's good pleasure to annul the pretext for that pride which brought down His rational creatures, He makes everything like Himself; and because by nature He is equal to Himself and equal in honor, He makes the creation equal to itself by grace and equal in honor."
"He gathered both things into one, mingling humanity with divinity, and by so doing He taught everyone that humility is the road which leads upwards, setting forth today Himself as an example before men and holy angels alike."
"Not only does He assume this nature and raise it up from the fall, but He inexpressibly clothes Himself in it and unites Himself inseparably with it and was born as both God and man: from a woman, in the first instance, that He might take upon Himself the same nature which He formed in our forefathers; and from a woman who was a virgin, in the second, so that He might make man new."
"For God, who was angry with the human race and subjected it to terrible curses, has come in the flesh, granting His peace and reconciling them to the heavenly Father."
"Let us be at peace with one another, 'forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you' (Col. 3:13), and showing mercy to each other out of mutual love, just as Christ, solely for love of us, had mercy on us and for our sake came down to us."
CHRIST IS BORN!
GLORIFY HIM!
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