Και τούτο κατά τό
άκόλουθον γίνεται, και ούκ έξω τού είκότος έστίν. Έπειδη γάρ ή τόν θάνατον διά
της άμαρτίας επεισάγουσα τη φύσει, έν λύπαις καί πόνοις τίκτειν κατεδικάσθη,
έδει πάντως τήν της ζωής μητέρα άπό χαράς τε της κυοφορίας άρξασθαι, καί διά
χαράς τελειώσαι τόν τόκον. Χαΐρε γάρ, φησί, κεχαριτωμένη, προς αύτήν ό
άρχάγγελος, έκβάλλων τή φωνή τήν λύπην τήν έξ άρχης ύπό τής άμαρτίας
άποκληρωθεΐσαν τω τόχω. Ούτος μέν ούν έστιν ό τω καινώ τε καί ίδιάζοντι της
γεννήσεως έκ πασών τών μυριάδων μόνος τοιούτος γενόμενος, ό λευκός τε καί
πυρρός διά την σάρκα και τό αιμα καλώς ώνομασμένος, καί έκλελοχισμένος άπό
μυριάδων, διά τήν άφθαρτόν τε καί άπαθή του τόκου παρά τούς λοιπούς Ιδιότητα. Η
τάχα καί διά τά λοιπά της γεννήσεως είδη τά διά της λοχείας γινόμενα, ταύτην
έφήρμοσεν αύτω τήν φωνήν ή νύμφη. (PG 44:1053)
And this, too, happens in accordance with what follows,
and is not apart from what has been revealed. For since death, through sin, had
been compelling nature—destined to beget sorrows and pains—it was necessary,
nevertheless, that the mother of life should begin in joy and in the state of
pregnancy, and that through joy the birth be perfected. “Rejoice, for, full of
grace,” says the archangel to her—casting forth a voice that dismisses the
sorrow which, from the very beginning, had been divested (or disinherited) by
sin from its proper place (i.e. the womb). This, then, is he who, while being
renewed and partaking in the generation, alone came forth out of the countless
ones, having thus become such; he is both white and fiery on account of his
flesh and his blood—a name befitting him—and he is exalted among the multitudes
by virtue of the incorruptible and undefiled nature of his generation, set
apart from the rest by his very essence. And swiftly, and by means of the other
kinds of generation which arise by the dispensation of lot (or destiny), the
nymph applied this very voice to him.
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