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| (Madonna with Sleeping Child by Andrea Mantegna) |
“But of all the marvellous and mighty acts related of [our Lord Jesus Christ], this altogether surpasses human admiration, and is beyond the power of mortal frailness to understand or feel, how that mighty power of divine majesty, that very Word of the Father, and that very wisdom of God, in which were created all things, visible and invisible, can be believed to have existed within the limits of that man who appeared in Judea; nay, that the Wisdom of God can have entered the womb of a woman, and have been born an infant . . . To utter these things in human ears, and to explain them in words, far surpasses the powers either of our rank, or of our intellect and language. . . . nay, the explanation of that mystery may perhaps be beyond the grasp of the entire creation of celestial powers.”
~Origen
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