{"id":14656,"date":"2024-12-24T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14656"},"modified":"2024-12-13T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T00:48:32","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-24-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14656","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9leef\" data-offset-key=\"8kb88-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8kb88-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8kb88-0-0\">&#8220;Since this heavenly birth cannot be described, neither does His coming amongst us in these days permit of too curious scrutiny. Though I know that a Virgin this day gave birth, and I believe that God was begotten before all time, yet the manner of this generation I have learned to venerate in silence and I accept that this is not to be probed too curiously with wordy speech. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of Him who works.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9leef\" data-offset-key=\"fdtea-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fdtea-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fdtea-0-0\">(St John Chrysostom, Nativity Homily) <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"fdtea-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14657\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Image5r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Image5r-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Image5r.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since this heavenly birth cannot be described, neither does His coming amongst us in these days permit of too curious scrutiny. Though I know that a Virgin this day gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14658,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions\/14658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}