The All-Knowing saw that we worship things that were made: He put on a body that was made, that in our custom He might take us captive - and by a body that was made, drew us to the Creator.
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The frankincense - which had served demons - worshipped Thy Birth. It grieved them with its vapour. It exulted when it saw its Lord - instead of being the incense of delusion, it was an oblation before God!
St Ephraim
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