10. Nonetheless, the virgin mother recognized whom she carried, she knew; let astonishment flee and faith enter. Behold, the one whom she carried is born. He does not yet speak, but awakens the whole world. 11. Heaven cries out, radiant with the light of a new star; earth, distressed by Herod, cries out; Magi, warned, come; Jews, troubled, inquire; [everyone] asks where is he who is everything: The maker of the world is sought throughout the world. 12. He was being sought, however, not that he might be acclaimed but that he might be killed, for “the world was made through him, and the world did not know him” [John 1:10]. O defiled world, he who would redeem you came, and you have become troubled; when he arranged to liberate you, you then wished to destroy him! 13. O wicked land of the Jews, you are at odds with heaven. Heaven discloses a sign that the infant be adored; you scour [the earth] that the infant might be killed [see Matt 2:13–18]. Heaven announces to you that God assumed man for you, and you wish to do away with him who came to redeem you.Quodvultdeus, “The First Homily on the Creed,” in Quodvultdeus of Carthage: The Creedal Homilies: Conversion in Fifth-Century North Africa, ed. Dennis D. McManus, trans. Thomas Macy Finn, vol. 60 of Ancient Christian Writers (New York; Mahwah, NJ: The Newman Press, 2004), 34–35.
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