September 23 – St. Gregory of Nyssa from the Great Catechism
The Incarnation was not unworthy of Him; for only evil brings degradation.
The objection that the finite cannot contain the infinite, and that therefore the human nature could not receive into itself the Divine, is founded on the false supposition that the Incarnation of the Word means that the infinity of God was contained in the limits of the flesh, as in a vessel. —” Comparison of the flame and wick.
For the rest, the manner in which the Divine nature was united to the human surpasses our power of comprehension; although we are not permitted to doubt the fact of that union in Jesus, on account of the miracles which He wrought. The supernatural character of those miracles bears witness to their Divine origin. — Chapters IX through XIII.