5.9 What is your
Nephew more than other Nephews,
o beautiful among women? What is your Nephew, that
you do thus charge us?
The Bride describes the Nephew:
My Nephew is white and red, one among ten thousand.
By this she denotes the body and blood of our humanity,
which He took from the Holy Virgin: white and red because He took on
mortal existence from the Virgin, which flesh and blood. Nonetheless, the
Virgin did not conceive by means of a man’s seed, nor is this a corrupted
generation. Rather, it was a conception by means of the Holy Spirit, and a
birth from the Virgin who remained the same Virgin after that birth. He came
through ‘locked doors’ (Jn 20:19) in a way not comparable with other births. Thus,
she says one among ten thousand, for there were no pants at His birth,
and neither pain nor sadness. Rather, as the angel had announced joy and rejoicing
to the Virgin, His birth was correspondingly replete with happiness [Nyssa 1052C-1053C].
(The Blessing of Blessings: Gregory of Narek’s Commentary on the Song of
Songs [trans. Robert Ervine; Cistercian Studies Series 215; Kalamazoo,
Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2007], 152)
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