Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — On the Feast of the Epiphany, IV.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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I. The yearly observance of the Epiphany is profitable to Christians. It is the right and reasonable duty of true piety, dearly-beloved, on the days which bear witness to the works of Divine mercy, to rejoice with the whole heart and to celebrate with all honour the things which have been wrought for our salvation: for the very law of recurring seasons calls us to such devout observance, and has now brought before us the feast of the Epiphany, consecrated by the Lord's appearance soon after the day on which the Son of God co-eternal with the Father was born of a Virgin. And herein the …
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