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"37. For greater is the joy of the Birth than the Conception. — Yea it was one angel, that brought us tidings of Your Conception: — but in the joy of Your Birth, a multitude of Watchers brought tidings.

R., Blessed be Your tidings in Your day!"
That's really interesting, to me.

"34. His Will was able, even by force to rescue us.— But since it was not force that made us guilty, it was not by force He purged us.— The Evil One by enticement enslaved us: Your Birth enticed to give us life.

R., Blessed be He Who planned and gave us life!"

"The gold of the idols worshipped You, that You treated it as alms; which availed not apart, for the uses of life."

"19. Sin had spread its wings, and covered all things — that none could discern, of himself or from above, the truth.— Truth came down into the womb, came forth and rolled away error.

R., Blessed is He Who dispelled Sin by His Birth!"

"17. The Evil One knew how to harm us; and by lights he blinded us — by possessions he hurt us, through gold he made us poor — by the graver's graven images, he made us a heart of stone."

Arrived at Hymn 15.

Hymn 13 is full of brilliant exegesis, showing Christs power and linking Him to the prophecies of the Old Testament.

Arrived at Hymn 13. Great Christmas reading.

"He that has sanctity, if he be in danger, lo! Here is his Guardian! He that has iniquity, lo! Here is his Pardoner! He that has a devil, here is the Pursuer thereof! They that have pains, lo! Here is the Binder up of their breaches."