'Ηχος δ΄. (Scroll down for English)
Δεῦτε ἴδωμεν πιστοί, ποῦ ἐγεννήθη ὁ Χριστός, ἀκολουθήσωμεν λοιπὸν ἔνθα ὁδεύει ὁ ἀστήρ, μετὰ τῶν Μάγων Ἀνατολῆς τῶν Βασιλέων. Ἄγγελοι ὑμνοῦσιν, ἀκαταπαύστως ἐκεῖ. Ποιμένες ἀγραυλοῦσιν, ᾠδὴν ἐπάξιον΄ Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις λέγοντες, τῷ σήμερον ἐν Σπηλαίῳ τεχθέντι, ἐκ τῆς Παρθένου, καὶ Θεοτόκου, ἐν Βηθλεὲμ τῆς Ἰουδαίας.
Τί θαυμάζεις Μαριάμ; τί ἐκθαμβεῖσαι τῷ ἐν σοί; Ὅτι ἄχρονον Υἱόν, χρόνῳ ἐγέννησα φησί, τοῦ τικτομένου τὴν σύλληψιν μὴ διδαχθεῖσα. Ἄνανδρος εἰμί, καὶ πῶς τέξω Υἱόν, ἄσπορον γονὴν τίς ἑώρακεν, ὅπου Θεὸς δὲ βούλεται, νικᾶται φύσεως τάξις, ὡς γέγραπται. Χριστὸς ἐτέχθη, ἐκ τῆς Παρθένου, ἐν Βηθλεὲμ τῆς Ἰουδαίας.
Ὁ ἀχώρητος παντί, πῶς ἐχωρήθη ἐν γαστρί; ὁ ἐν κόλποις τοῦ Πατρός, πῶς ἐν ἀγκάλαις τῆς Μητρός, πάντως ὡς οἶδεν ὡς ἠθέλησε καὶ ὡς, ηὐδόκησεν, ἄσαρκος γὰρ ὢν, ἐσαρκώθη ἑκών, καὶ γέγονεν ὁ Ὢν, ὃ οὐκ ἦν δι' ἡμᾶς, καὶ μὴ ἐκστὰς τῆς φύσεως, μετέσχε τοῦ ἡμετέρου φυράματος. Διπλοῦς ἐτέχθη, Χριστὸς τὸν ἄνω, κόσμον θέλων ἀναπληρῶσαι,
English translation:
Come, believers, let us see the place where Christ has been born. With the Magi, those three kings who from the orient are, now let us follow to where the star is proceeding. Ceaselessly do Angels sing praises there. Shepherds in the field sing a worthy song, saying: Glory in the highest be to Him who was born today in the grotto from the Virgin and Theotokos, in Bethlehem of Judea.
Mary, why are you amazed and awed by what was done in you? And she answers, "For in time I have brought forth a timeless Son. But I have no understanding of His conception. Husbandless am I: how can
I bear a son? Who has ever seen seedless childbirth? But where God wills, the order found in nature is overcome, as it is written." So Christ was born from the Virgin Maiden, in Bethlehem of Judea.
He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the Father's bosom and His Mother's embrace. How can this be, but as He knows and willed and was well pleased. Fleshless as He was,
He willingly took flesh. And He Who Is became what He was not, for us. And while departing not from His own nature, He shared in our nature's substance. So Christ was born with dual natures, wishing to replenish the world on high.
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