Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 84:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 135, footnote 4 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great. (HTML)

Sermons. (HTML)

On the Feast of the Nativity, IV. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 773 (In-Text, Margin)

... not differ from ours, because His nativity is wonderful. For He Who is true God, is also true man: and there is no lie in either nature. “The Word became flesh” by exaltation of the flesh, not by failure of the Godhead: which so tempered its power and goodness as to exalt our nature by taking it, and not to lose His own by imparting it. In this nativity of Christ, according to the prophecy of David, “truth sprang out of the earth, and righteousness looked down from heaven[Psalms 84:12].” In this nativity also, Isaiah’s saying is fulfilled, “let the earth produce and bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together.” For the earth of human flesh, which in the first transgressor, was cursed, in this Offspring of the ...