{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030470.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030470.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030470.htm","text":"6. But this Only Son of God, the Father Almighty, let us see what He did for us, what He suffered for us. \u201cBorn of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary.\u201d He, so great God, equal with the Father, born of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary, born lowly, that thereby He might heal the proud. Man exalted himself and fell; God humbled Himself and raised him up. Christ\u2019s lowliness, what is it? God hath stretched out an hand to man laid low. We fell, He descended: we lay low, He stooped. Let us lay hold and rise, that we fall not into punishment. So then His stooping to us is this, \u201cBorn of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary.\u201d His very Nativity too as man, it is lowly, and it is lofty. Whence lowly? That as man He was born of men. Whence lofty? That He was born of a virgin. A virgin conceived, a virgin bore, and after the birth was a virgin still.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Doctrinal Treat...","type":"page"}