Into the ancient holy land
Behold, the son of God is come to man.
Hoc est enim corpus meam.
In Innocence fall all heroes and their creeds;
An age is done, an age from here proceeds.
Hic est enim calix sanguinis mei,
Novi et aeterni testamenti.
What consuming pagan fires could not do—
A covenant of love, and Word made flesh, in You.
Qui pro nobis et pro multis effundetor;
In remissionem peccatorum.
Sleep swells His breast, though heavy pressed,
By Golgotha, and Adam's sin,
And the hopes of he who signs his name herein.
Jesse
"What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
John 1:3-5
"And the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory as of the Father’s only Son,
full of grace and truth."
John 1:14
"He became what we are, so that we might become what He is."
Athanasius
What a wonderful condescension and extravagance we have from God. For although we were made and formed in His image, He has thereafter sanctified that image, and confirmed us as His creation, in the Incarnation.
"In the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Thereafter, any attack, even on the least of men, is an attack on Christ, who took on the form of man, and in his own Person restored the image of God in all. Through our relationship with the Incarnation, we recover our true humanity, and at the same time are delivered from that perverse individualism which is the consequence of sin, and recover our solidarity with all mankind."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
