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Venit, inquit, Jesus in patriam suam. Nemo miretur, si conditor rerum, coelorum Dominus, Deus omnium, patriam locumque sortitur, quando se claudit utero, metitur cunis, uberibus occupat, arctat gremio, dat in ulnas; et ut angustias tollat humanas, humanis se dedit atque aptavit angustiis. Homo, ad te Deus se per ista deponit, te per ista sequitur, per istas te perquirit angustias; ut quem formavit opere, reformet exemplo; quem judicio repulit, reducat affectu, et in se servet quem praeter se conspicit deperisse. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo XLVIII Source: Migne PL 52.333c-334a

Jesus came, it says, to his homeland. 1 Let no one wonder if the Creator of the universe, the Lord of the heavens, the God of all, is appointed a homeland and a place, when He encloses Himself in a womb, is measured for a cradle, clings to breasts, presses himself into a bosom, gives Himself to be held in the arms, and that, to remove the narrow constraints of humanity, He gave and adapted Himself to humanity's narrow limits. O man, God gave Himself to these things for you, through these things He follows you, through these narrow limitations He seeks you, so that the one whom He formed by His work He might reform by His example, so that him whom he drove off by His judgment, He might lead back by His affection, and that He might save in Himself the one whom He sees has been lost apart from Him. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 48 1 Mt 13.54