“Christ is born, glorify ye Him. Christ from heaven, go ye out to meet Him. Christ on…”

Christ is born, glorify ye Him. Christ from heaven, go ye out to meet Him. Christ on earth; be ye exalted.

Gregory of Nazianzus · The Orations, and Select Letters · NPNF2 VII, Oration XXXVIII, 1

The opening of the Oration on the Theophany, preached at Constantinople about 380 and still sung at the Nativity in the Byzantine rite as the katavasia of the canon — a sermon’s first line that became a hymn.

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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.

Read in Browne & Swallow, NPNF series 2 vol. 7 (1893) · Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow

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