Who can tell thy lofty and eternal magnificence, O Word of God;
and who may comprehend thy voluntary self-emptying for us?
Who can narrate thy wonderful nativity from the Virgin, and who may weigh thy undeserved and voluntary sufferings, which thou didst endure and suffer for our salvation?
And who is sufficient to adore and celebrate the whole of this thy ministry of salvaiont for us?—
from The Liturgy of the Syrian Jacobites
