Behold! A new joy!
Behold! A new wonder!
A Virgin, who knew not a man,
bears a son.
She knew not a man, but
as the pear-tree bears the pear, the
flourishing papyrus brings the lily from
the soil.
See how nature
changes her laws:
a pure virgin bears the son of God.
God, seeing the world,
lamentable in its ruin,
has brought forth a delightful rose
from a thorn.
From a thorn he has brought forth
from a queen a son,
who is the remedy and salvation of the peoples.
Divinity could not
have come lower,
Nor could our flesh
have been more exalted,
put on a level with God,
established in heaven,
by marriage.
Behold! A new wonder!
A Virgin, who knew not a man,
bears a son.
She knew not a man, but
as the pear-tree bears the pear, the
flourishing papyrus brings the lily from
the soil.
See how nature
changes her laws:
a pure virgin bears the son of God.
God, seeing the world,
lamentable in its ruin,
has brought forth a delightful rose
from a thorn.
From a thorn he has brought forth
from a queen a son,
who is the remedy and salvation of the peoples.
Divinity could not
have come lower,
Nor could our flesh
have been more exalted,
put on a level with God,
established in heaven,
by marriage.
