God Eternal

In these remaining days of the Christmas season and into Epiphanytide, laudable Practice will be sharing words on the Lord's Nativity from Jeremy Taylor's The Great Exemplar, indicating how Taylor drank deeply from patristic Christological thought and devotion.

The condition of the person who was born here is of greatest consideration.  For He that cried in the manger, that sucked the paps of a woman, that hath exposed Himself to poverty and a world of inconveniences, is "the Son of the living God", of the same substance with His Father, begotten before all ages, before the morning stars; He is God eternal ... Vere Verbum hoc est abbreviatum, saith the prophet; the eternal Word of the Father is shortened to the dimensions of an infant.

Jeremy Taylor The Great Exemplar I.adIII.5

(The icon of the Nativity is by Lyuba Yatskiv.)