Nativity 14

The son of her voice: come, take refuge and be still in the bosom of your mother. The noble son does not fear shame. To the kings, the son of David came. That noble one, the son of Mary, whose beauty preserved the covenant of the righteous woman. To you, praise on this day: you rejoiced over all. To the likeness of the world, the joyful world, the beautiful child whose mother is chaste, and whose father is hidden, whom even the seraphim cannot see, to the likeness of the world. It was told to you, son of the sinner: the troubled ones who came to take refuge in you. You rejoiced; their eyes were sealed, their groans ceased. Together, the letters were sweetened. In you, the child is sweet, for even the bitter ones are sweetened in you. See the world, how it runs to those near, from within the rock. Behold, it is spread out toward the distant ones. A beautiful vision: the world that is in tumult, all in every tongue, taking refuge in him, who has a lip, a sign, and a vision. Your lip, your arm, and your vision fled. Your mind erred in you, your faith erred in you. Even your food and your drink were confused in you, and your way erred. Rest yourself and begin healing. To your craftsmen, son of the poor, you are from the self of all the poor, who ceased and came to love healing. Healing you have given in your joy. David the king, that noble one, took branches and in due season, among the children's houses, when he was distressed, he gave praise, lest his love be hidden. Of David your father, behold, it boils in you. That daughter of Saul, the demon of her father, spoke in her; the vile one called to that noble one who gave the type.

To the elders of the people who are with the parturients: take up branches on the day of your praise. Do not fear that which is placed upon you, as if you were a shameless one, like the daughter of Saul who revealed the secret of her womb. From the birth that conquered her mouth, the reward of her mouth became her shame. Shut your mouths from your blasphemy, lest you be hired to slander the pure daughter. Your mouth from that son of David, who rejoices before you, shall not be for you like the daughter of Saul who completed her lineage. The unclean people, when they are oppressed, even the erring see God, how they are oppressed, and he had mercy on them. On account of the footsteps, he multiplied his pardons among the oppressed, so that they might be, that their partner might heal her. He wrote and released her, and if he errs in her, in her choice waters, and if he oppresses her, he gave all the bridal gift of oppression. In shame, Mary became sealed, before Moses spread out the curtains. How many oppressors, when the bridal gifts of virgins were hunted, they came and killed, they came and slew. How much they oppressed the mother of the son, with waters, with free will, and with bridal gifts. Demand from the curtains what came to him, the lord of the wombs, and they oppressed the womb, that which dwelt in her among the pure virgins. On the face of her womb, spread out over him. They were, therefore, that a man came from the sword among the virgins who went out. They saw and saved her, guard and be guarded. The wise women, it is a weapon that if it knows, he with his lord turns and offers, that he might taste the desire of his body. That Elijah, the rain, was stopping.

From the chaste ones who stripped his body, the youth was stripped by the chaste ones who loosed and kept their springs, so that the hidden power did not rule over him. The desire of the body was heard by him, the power of height and victory on earth. The desire of the flesh ascended to where holy chastity dwells and is at peace. Also Elisha, who mortified his body, raised the dead one, the living of the dead, that pure one in holiness, who without weeping raised the child who cast himself like a castrated one. Moses, who divided and separated himself from the daughter of his union, divided the sea before the chaste one, the bird kept holy chastity, though she was the daughter of priests. Quickly the daughter of Abraham feared.