Poverty And The Incarnation

Μακάριος ὁ συνιὼν ἐπὶ πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα. Μακαρίζει τὸν δυνάμενον συνιέναι τήν πτωχείαν, ἢν δι' ἡμᾶς ἀνείληφεν ὁ Χριστός, Τοῦτον γὰρ λέγει πτωχὸν, διότι πλούσιος ὤν, ἐπτώχευσε δι' ἡμᾶς, ἵν' ἡμεῖς τῇ ἐκείνου πτωχείᾳ πλουτήσωμεν.  Ἅγιος Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Εἰς Τους Ψαλμους, Ψαλμός Μ' Migne PG 69. 993

'Blessed is he who thinks on the poor and needy.' 1   Blessed, he says, is he who is able to understand poverty, which Christ took up for our sake. For this he calls poverty, He who when He was rich, became needy for us, that by His poverty we be enriched. 2 Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 40 1 Ps 40.2 2. 2 Cor 8.9