{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec41.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec41.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nCanon for Christmas Day\nby S. Cosmas\n\u03c3\u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03b3\u03c7\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u1f38\u03c9\u03bd\u1fb6\u03bd.\nAs Jonah, issuing from his three days\u2019 tomb,\n \u00a0\u00a0At length was cast, uninjured, on the earth;\n So, from the Virgin's unpolluted womb\n \u00a0\u00a0The Incarnate Word, That dwelt there, had His Birth:\n For He, Who knew no taint of mortal stain,\n Willed that His Mother spotless should remain.\nChrist comes, Incarnate God, amongst us now,\n \u00a0\u00a0Begotten of the Father ere the day:\n And He, to Whom the sinless legions bow,\n \u00a0\u00a0Lies cradled, \u2019midst unconscious beasts on hay:\n And, by His homely swaddling-bands girt in,\n Looses the many fetters of our sin.\nNow the New Child of Adam's race draws nigh,\n \u00a0\u00a0To us, the faithful, given: This, this is He\n That shall the Father of Eternity,\n \u00a0\u00a0The Angel of the Mighty Counsel, be:\n This the eternal God, by Whose strong hands\n The fabric of the world supported stands.","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Cosmas: Canon For Christmas Day, Ode VI.","type":"page"}