And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
He finds man in his corrupt affections become like the beasts that perish, and therefore He is laid in the manger, in the place of food, that we changing the life of beasts, might be brought to the knowledge that befits man, partaking not of hay, but of the heavenly bread, the life-giving body.
