That One, Who did forsake the Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, and all the constant and luminous spirits - He alone having come a new path, does issue forth from an inviolate of seed virginal womb.
Herod too strove to learn of this new birth, full of mystery, yet Herod did this not to reverence the new-born King, but to kill Him. That which therein was contradictory for them, they explained away mistakenly.
The Pharisees comprehended incorrectly the Law and the prophets. In Judea the new King is born but this new and wondrous nativity which pagan Gentiles have come to believe, the Jew have eschewed. Wherefore, though He grew and flourished, it however was not thus as it were by human power to attain to Divinity nor by any human ability to be made God but rather as the Word, by miraculous sufferance, wherein He was incarnated and manifest not being transformed, not being made something other, not deprived of that Divine Nature which He possessed previously. On the present joyous day God hath come to be born on this great day of arrival God is become That Which He was not: being God, He hath become Man, so to speak as though removed from Divinity (though His Divine Nature be not divested of) in being made Man, He hath remained God. And so, of that which was impossible for mankind to undertake, God did aspire and did descend, making for the salvation of mankind, since in the will of God this is life for all mankind. But who would dare investigate so great a mystery? “Wherein God doth wish it, therein the order of nature is overturned”, and laws cannot impede. By Divine providence the far distant are uplifted to the highest, and the highest, through the love of God for mankind, have bent down to the far distant, wherefore the Most High, through His humility, “is exalted through humility.” On this day of great festivity Bethlehem hath become like unto heaven, taking place amidst the glittering stars are Angels singing glory, and taking the place of the visible sun - is the indefinable and immeasurable Sun of Truth, having made all things that do exist.
In the highest sing Angels, proclaiming hymns Archangelic the heavenly Cherubim and Seraphim sing out praises to the glory of God: “Holy, Holy, Holy…” Together all do celebrate this joyous feast, beholding God upon the earth, and mankind of earth amidst the heavens. Shepherds with cries of joy come forth as messengers to the sons of mankind, not on their hilly pastures with their flocks conversing and not in the field with their sheep frolicking, but rather in the city of David Bethlehem spiritual songs exclaiming. We behold now a great and wondrous mystery.