Luke 2
1 In those days a decree went
out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should
be registered. 2 This
was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of
Syria. 3 And all went to
be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town
of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is
called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his
betrothed, who was with child. 6
And while they were there, the time came for her to give
birth. 7 And she gave
birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths
and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the
inn.
Micah 5
2 But you, O Bethlehem
Ephrathah,
who
are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come
forth for me
one
who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth
is from of old,
from
ancient days.
"Do you want to see
the humility of God? Look in the manger and see him lying there. Surely this is
our God. Seeing an infant, I wonder how this could be the one who says,
'Do not I fill heaven and earth?' I see a baby wrapped in swaddling
clothes. Is this the one who is clothed in the beautiful glory of
unapproachable light?
"Listen! He is
crying. Is this the one who thunders in the heaven making the angels lower
their wings? Yes, but he has emptied himself in order to fill us."
-Guerric of Igny
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