# “My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)

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“My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, of that Lord by whom all things were
made and who was made flesh amid all the works of His hands; who is the Manifestor
of His Father, the Creator of His mother; Son of God born of the Father without 
a mother, Son of Man born of a mother without a father; the great Day of the angels,
small in the day of men; the Word as God existing before all time, the Word as flesh
existing only for an allotted time; the Creator of the sun created under the light
of the sun; ordering all ages from the bosom of of His Father, from the womb of 
His mother consecrating this day; remaining there, yet proceeding hither; Maker 
of heaven and earth brought forth on this earth overshadowed by the heavens; unspeakably
wise, wisely speechless; filling the whole world, lying in a manger; guiding the
stars, a nursling at the breast; though insignificant in the form of man, so great
in the form of God that His greatness was not lessened by His insignificance nor
was His smallness crushed by His might.

When He assumed human form He did not abandon His divine operations, nor did He 
cease to reach from end to end mightily and to order all things sweetly.

When clothed in the weakness of our flesh He was received, not imprisoned, in the
Virgin’s womb so that without the food of wisdom being withdrawn from the angels
we might taste how sweet is the Lord.”

–Augustine of Hippo, “[Sermon 187: On the Feast of the Nativity](https://amzn.to/3511PEc),”
[_Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons _](https://amzn.to/3511PEc)(ed. Hermigild Dressler;
trans. Mary Sarah Muldowney; vol. 38; The Fathers of the Church; Washington, DC:
The Catholic University of America Press, 1959), 38: 13.

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