Made tangible, utterable

For in old times, God was known by names of power, of nature, of majesty; but His name of mercy was reserved till now, when God did purpose to pour out the whole treasure of His mercy by the mediation and ministry of His holy Son ... He hath changed the ineffable name into a name utterable by man, and desirable by all the world; the majesty is all arrayed in robes of mercy, the tetragrammaton, or adorable mystery of the patriarchs, is made fit for pronounciation and expression, when it becometh the name of the Lord's Christ ... The great and highest name of God could not be prounounced truly, till it came to be finished with a guttural, that made up the name given by this angel to the holy child; nor God received and entertained by men, till He was made human and sensible by the adoption of a sensitive nature, like vowels pronounciable by the intertexture of a consonant.  Thus was His person made tangible, and His name utterable, and His mercy brought home to our necessities, and the mystery made explicate, at the circumcision of this holy babe.

Jeremy Taylor The Great Exemplar I.adV.8.

(The icon of the Blessed Virgin and Christ Child is by Jerzy Nowosielski.)

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