Birth And Hope

Ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ἐκσπάσας με ἐκ γαστρός    Τάχα γὰρ ὁ ἐκ σπέρματος συλληφθείς ἐν τῇ γαστρὶ πληρωθέντος τοῦ καιροῦ τῆς ἀποτέξεως, ὑπ' αὐτῆς τῆς μήτρας ἐπὶ τὰ ἔξω προβάλλεται. Μόνον δὲ τὸν σωτῆρα ὁ πατὴρ ἐκ τῆς γαστρὸς τῆς παρθένου ἐκσπᾷ, οὐκ ἔξωθεν σπέρματος αὐτῇ καταβληθέντος ἀλλ' ἐξ αὐτῆς τοῦ θείου τόκου ἐξεσπασμένου.  ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἀπὸ μαστῶν τῆς μητρός μου Τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις τὸ ἐλπίζειν καὶ προσδοκᾶν τὰ μέλλοντα μετὰ συμπλήρωσιν τοῦ λόγου ἐφ' ἡλικίαις γενομένοις ἐπέρχεται. Μόνον δὲ τὸ ἐκ Μαρίας βρέφος ἀπὸ μαστῶν τῆς μητρὸς ἐλπίζει τελειότητα· θεὸν γὰρ ἔχει τὴν ἐλπίδα· οὐδέποτε γὰρ ἐν κακίᾳ γεγένηται, πάντων ἀνθρώπων μετὰ ἄγνοιαν καὶ πονηρίαν τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἀσπαζομένων. Καὶ τοῦτο δηλῶν ̔Ησαΐας ἔλεγεν· Πρὶν η γνῶναι αὐτὸν ἀγαθὸν η κακὸν ἀπειθεῖ πονηρίᾳ τοῦ ἐκλέξασθαι τὸ ἀγαθόν.  Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος ΚΑ' Migne PG 39.1277

'For you drew me from the womb.' 1 For swiftly from seed conceived in the womb, with the time of birth fulfilled, a man by the same womb is cast forth. But alone the Father drew the Saviour from the womb of the Virgin, for as the seed in her was not cast down from outside, so the drawing out of the Divine birth. 'My hope from the breasts of my mother, ' 1  With other men there is hope and expectation of future things with completion of reason by increase of years, but alone the child of Mary from the breasts of His mother hoped for perfection, for His was Divine hope, and thus never did he do anything wicked, whereas every man after ignorance and error only then embraces the good, and this Isaiah clearly spoke of saying, 'Before he knows good or evil,  he shall reprove evil and choose good.' 2 Didymus the Blind, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 21 1 Ps 21.10 2 Is 8 15-16