The Word Made Flesh

Verbum caro factum est. In carne nascitur Verbum, et ecce, aeternitas temporalis; ad Galatas quarto: Ubi venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub Lege. Si factum: ergo temporale. Hoc est Verbum factum, de quo Lucae secundo: Transeamus usque Bethlehem et videamus hoc verbum, quod factum est etc. Videamus, inquam, Verbum secundum carnem factum, qui videre nunquam potuimus Verbum, quod secundum Divinitatem nec est factum nec creatum, sed genitura. Psalmus: Cantate, inquit, Domino, quia mirabilia fecit. Fecit enim, ut sit maiestas abiecta, et immensitas parva, aeternitas facta; quod totum memorat Evangelista, cum dicit: Verbum carofactum est. Sanctus Bonaventura, Collationes In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput I Collatio II Source: Here, p537

The Word was made flesh. 1 The Word was born in the flesh, and behold, eternity in time. In the fourth chapter of the letter to the Galatians, 'When the fullness of time had come, He sent His own Son, made from a woman, made beneath the law.' 2 If made, therefore in time. This is the Word made, concerning which it says in the second chapter of Luke, 'Let us pass over to Bethlehem and let us see this word, what has been done.' 3 Let us see, I say, the Word made flesh, we who were never able to see according to His Divinity, which is not something done, nor created, but begotten. The Psalm says, 'Sing to the Lord, because He has made miracles.' 4 For He has made His majesty abject, His greatness small, His eternity something done, which all things the Evangelist comprehends when he says, 'The Word was made flesh.' Saint Bonaventura, Observations On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 1 1 Jn 1.14 2 Galat 4.4 3 Lk 2.15 4 Ps 97.1