The Word about the Nativity of the Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ, in the same way to the Jews

Behold, the den, and the manger, and the newborn Child in them, lifted up 1 by his unskilled material, and by the wolf, honoring the gifts of the honest, and by a natural star, instructed from above, and the rank of angels, crying: glory to him reigning in the highest, and peace to those who dwell on earth, and the shepherd, hearing from above: Christ will be born to you in Bethlehem, hope. yours? Truly everything is wonderful and clearly proclaims to this Infant the existence of God, the King of all; but maybe no one can speak to these former ones on occasion; For a long time now this has been prophesied about Him, and the divinely inspired books of the sacred future 2 verbose men have given false testimony about this. Let the unruly Jewish language be put to shame, by impudently arguing with only the most revealed things! Yes, or as God sings along with us to Jesus, seeing all of us, since the sacred prophets prophesied about Him for many years before and the truth about Him came true, I cleanse the lepers, and give sight to the blind and raise the dead from the grave, in a word, or maliciously remain in their malice, nor do they obey the sacred prophet, as such those who have lied against Christ, let them hope that something else will come, as if the appointed time of His appearance has long passed. If it is not right for a prophet to say to a prophet who wants to give permission to the evil ones to speak: 4 times, every ten weeks have ceased for your people and for the holy city, so as to seal the rest and the vision of the wise prophet, and that the Holy of Holies may come; 5 And this prophecy came to pass, since none of them foretold the future according to Christ. If they have the faith as a true and God's friend as a prophet, and thus incline their ears, let them sing to Christ our God without doubt, because of this one event, without mercy, those who have received all together, even about Him, the prophecies, in the image of a mighty God and a great autocrat are sung, and “to the world and to the great council of the angel and the prince,” as Isaiah cries (Is. 9:6) If you have suffered passion, because you have suffered not in the Divine, but in the flesh, you will perceive it as great mercy; and behold, by the will and by the good pleasure of the Father without beginning, I have deigned to save the entire human race, for before many years this was prophesied about Him by the God-inspired prophet. Bow down, for he is worthy of Grace, as a Divine gift, and do not turn away from the rite of healing 6 and, wherever and whenever and as God commands, follow Him, like kindly children as your parent, it is thinking, as the all-wise and all-good and the Truth itself, nothing is lawless, lower than absurd, lower than our strength is by no means commands, and this yes, having washed us of all kinds of malice, will adorn us with godlike glory with kindnesses. Or else prophecies will show the coming Messiah without passions and death and with a single human nature and glory and wealth and the height of the never-ending kingdom, as he imagines, sitting on the royal thrones to rule over everyone, or this cannot be shown, but they worship Him together with us and the sacred prophets, in dual nature of God together and man perfected by those who spoke in reality, and endured death in her flesh, and on the third day rose again from the dead, and appeared as her friend, and sat on the right hand thrones of her beginningless Parent, as God and Lord are all. But what about this obstinate and unruly race? The lower is praiseworthy, the lower is not suitable at all, the speech is such as to philosophize about the Being above all visible and invisible creatures. But oh, more than all people are filled with disobedience and all sorts of madness and pride! If you see this, lower in His incorruptible image, let him say, lower from the earth, having created Adam, lower, washed by the foot of a human image and embraced by a thin tabernacle, lower, meat and salt of the inim, tasting and presenting 7 the child to the aged spouse, lower than the struggle of making up 8 and whipping his opponent with his foot with cunning, lower in the unburnt for the fire-illuminated bush, speaking with Moses, descended below in the form of an angel to turn the fire from the fire into the dew of the venerable youth. If this whole thing deigned to be accepted, as it is written, wanting to save his creation, for whose sake all things were created and for whom, as we hear, the master of showing everyone on earth; Why are you out of your mind, about lack of understanding, reproaching and rejecting His unspeakable and full of mercy for the human race, as He deigns both passion and the grave? 9 If the thing had not been dearly loved and honored by everyone, complex from dust and soul, 10 he would have created it in his Divine image and likeness, if he had sinned, he would have spared him in every way, but either he would have destroyed him, or he would have locked him in the insoluble bonds of the torments of hell, for his sake he would have cleansed the whole earth with countless waters, and drowned his entire race together with people and dumb beasts, leaving them little seed in the Drevyans' kivot, below Egypt he would have executed with destructive wounds and drowning Pharaoh with all his army, below countless and wondrous miracles he would have created for us, as a demonstration in the ways of the ancients, in the image of a real demonstration, having great providence and Divine love for his creation. It is so dear and necessary for all the Tsar to endure everything about his noble creation, who was seduced by the destructive demons, who suffered in the humanity of his flesh by will, not just to show his, having from the very beginning, innumerable love for man, but also, since the pre-existent Divine being is unapproachable and invisible, the joy is quite reverent they acquire visually in the human form of their Lord the brilliant lightning that is constantly emitted by them from the Divine and ever-present light, for whose sake they especially perceive the human form; Be that as it may, the gift of eternal blessings is then given to the righteous, who are truly imperfect, just as those who dine with a certain great king and those who eat the most kind food, deprived of the king’s vision and broadcasting, know all of them and the chaff appears, even if the sweetest thing is eaten and drunk, and their thoughts are filled with sorrow. But this, as far as possible, the weak human mind has offered you food to assure the truth; but it is not falsely guilty that 11 His love for mankind is so great, as He willed passion and death and the grave, 12 He himself knows perfectly well; Before anyone knows the mind of the Most High, the Divine word cries out. But what is below blasphemous, as you say, is also highly praiseworthy and is and is judged by all prudent people, who, according to wisdom together with inspired prophecies about the extreme love of God, whose knowledge is known 13 and the all-wise work is death, who was accepted by will on the cross, by death as a human being, and by the resurrection from the dead, assuring 14 his Divine nature. It is unjust for it is by no means to philosophize about Him, whose omnipotent beckoning everyone obeys, as if He had no other form of healing, 15 for which it demanded such bad healing, whose bad and weak form appeared wiser than all wisdom and stronger than all power. But although the deed exhorts us to humble wisdom and to make life itself convenient for carelessness and Divine love, nothing else is considered higher and better, He deigned to eat and suffer on the cross, and was buried, having offered Himself to all who wished for good in the future 16 the image and decree of a perfect life; A bright crown and wonderful honors must be acquired through the greatest labor, they say. What greater honors can there be for those who think well than the eternal life and never-ending kingdom of God, which cannot be received otherwise, but through much sweat and great labor? But this is wretched. But you, since nothing else obliges you to glorify Christ God the King, until 17 this many-year-old one, who is the wrath of God against you, who embitters you with the last fierce and all dishonor scattered throughout all nations, let your foolish thoughts admonish you not to flatter, as you blaspheme, about abomination, lower than an evildoer, lower than God’s commandment Resisting, but the most glorious Son of God, beloved by the dishonorable death of sowing life, whose shed innocent blood, even taken on your heads and on your children, you always persecute. If the flatterer and the villain, as you blaspheme, had been killed quickly, God would have truly exalted you more magnificently, and would have sent you more prophets than before, and would have strengthened your power to the fullest; for His promise is not false, which says: “Whoever glorifies Me and I will glorify, but those who dishonor Me will be dishonored” (1 Sam. 2:30); His art 18 has already taken over for many years all together the fatherland, and the empire, and the notorious church of your former deprivation, and the very prophetic graces of God sent to you from above, even though you have sinned, all sorts of evil and demonic charms have appeared in other dwellings. In this regard, it is appropriate to reason with a sober mind and diligently consider it with a God-wise standard, as if this were not the prophesied Messiah, and if, as you blaspheme, a flatterer, and not the mighty God, then all the God-inspired prophecies about Him would have come to pass without mercy, and would destroy your church and city, as if He prophesied that he would be able to destroy you with evil, and to call down the discordant tribes of men into good faith and drive away the darkness of the idolized 19. This is possible for God alone, but not for man. The number of many times the fulfillment of all wisdom, and also the height of the royal taxation, trying to bring their fellow tribesmen under their law, who they themselves intended with their wisdom, to bring, and barely being able to bring one language under the yoke of their laws for a few years; Christ my King, we are persecuted from everyone, fleeing, dying and condemned, with two dozen men without books, who know nothing else, only fishing, not one language, not two, but the fiery sun flows around the earth and the ocean surrounds, bring into the light of good faith and deeds of righteousness, leave behind idolatry and all evil, neither sword nor spear, nor shield, nor armor, acting below with clever flattery, but with simple words and wondrous miracles, offering the word of good faith to everyone. And it is worthy of great surprise, for it gives perfect chastity the utmost truth, 20 thereby giving, and to those who observe this blameless life, promising the kingdom of heaven, and to those who transgress, it is punished with scorching fire, and various torments of hell, not only did it not terrify them to eat them, but even those who obeyed it had them for their commandment, as with the bitterest torments of it powerfully betray your body. And then you would see a kind of tender and marvelous sight, the fighters of Christ, like raw-eating animals, attacking the faithful, and the faithful again, tenderly slaughtered with the sword and burned by fire, every age and generation for Christ, like young children and virgins, daring to endure the mountain of torment and death itself, possessed by the warmest zeal of Christ. How could this, if God and Christ were not omnipotent, soon create this convenience throughout the entire universe? How would it ruin and disappear, the idolatrous charm being eradicated from everywhere? What, once abhorred and cursed and hated, like a mortal instrument, a cruciform tree, is now worshiped and venerated with much desire and honor? The zana of life is given and countless blessings; He raises the dead, 22 and heals diseases and all sorts of ailments, and drives away armies of destructive demons, and has the strongest weapons in battle. Who has strengthened this with the strongest forces and shown it to all the faithful, like the king himself, with the desire of many to accept on their heads what is written by the hand of God’s servants? It is precisely the same omnipotent Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was born in the flesh as a man, and His terrible name is invoked and will drive away all evil with the sign of the cross. Let us therefore sing and worship that He may be the One who reigns over all as God and man is perfect, who has been transformed into the Divinity into human nature, and who has been transformed into the Divine nature, who has the same composition from both, and is one and unmixed dissolution, but true man and God, reigning in the highest, are equal in all respects to the Mind that reflects Him, which is above all mind and word. there is, but the most terrible judge is coming, yes, by our deeds and intentions and words. Let us therefore cast away from our hearts all foolish disobedience and carnal lust! Let us implore the judge with true repentance, turning away from all our malice; Let us always hold fast to sacred love, mercy and truth and good chastity, since “faith, which is not involved in good works, is dead” (James 2:20) as we hear, as well as the body, separated souls. To a friend. handwritten: appearing That is, to find out about the end of the disasters of your people In the prophet Daniel 9:24, this passage reads like this: seventy weeks will be shortened for your people and for your holy city... and the vision and the prophet will be sealed, and the Holy of Holies will be anointed order in accomplishing our salvation Of course, Jacob's struggle with God. (Gen.32:24–31) and the exact reason for such great love for mankind which is clearly known from death. This word and the two works that follow it against the Jews were written by St. Maximus before 1525 You might be interested in: