Jack Schutt’s Reviews > On God and Christ, The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius: St. Gregory of Nazianzus > Status Update

“He was carried in the womb, but acknowledged by a prophet as yet unborn himself, who leaped for joy at the presence of the Word for whose sake he had been created. He was wrapped in swaddling bands, but at the Resurrection he unloosed the swaddling bands of the grave. He was laid in a manger, but was extolled by angels, disclosed by a star, and adored by Magi.”