Overcome by love, He came into the world to seek
His creature who had wandered.
Without beginning, and Ineffable,
Son of God and our God,
Wisely and with divine providence, as a God,
He makes the search.
He is made flesh from His mother whom He cleansed
(as though swept clean) and sanctified;
And He offers His body as a lamp to the fire and oil
Of His divinity which illumines all.
For fire and clay always make light.
Thus from His divinity and Incarnation, Christ
Shed the light of the Lamp —
The Life and Resurrection.
St. Romanos the Melodist, Kontakion on the Resurrection IV
Locus Communis 