numquid vana viros aut mens aut lingua fefellit? numquid fortuitis frustrantia dona dederunt casibus aut caeco votum sub honore dicarunt? quae porro causa aut ratio submittere colla ante pedes Mariae puerique crepundia parvi, si tantum mortalis erat, nec summa potestas inplebat teneros divinis flatibus artus? sed iam tolle magos, tus, aurum, myrrhea dona, quae verum docuere Deum, praesepia, pannos, matris adoratum gremium face sideris ardens: ipsa Deum virtus factorum et mira loquantur.
Did vain thought or speech deceive those men? Did they give bootless gifts in circumstances that were mere matter of chance, or dedicate their offering in worship that was blind? What cause or reason had they to bend their heads before Marys feet and the little ones baby-things, if He was but human and the supreme power was not filling the tender frame with the breath divine? But take away the wise men, the incense, the gold, the gifts of myrrh, which proved Him true God, the manger, the swaddling-clothes, the mothers adored bosom, that shone with the blaze of the star: yet the very power of his acts, his very miracles, would proclaim Him God.
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