Anonymous 4 - Carol: Ecce quod natura | Текст песни

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• Carol: Ecce quod natura

Ecce quod natura
mutat sua jura:
virgo parit pura
dei filium.
Ecce, novum gaudium,
ecce novum mirum:
virgo parit filium,
que non novit virum;
que non novit virum,
sed ut pirus pirum,
gleba fert sphirum,
rosa lilium.
Mundum dus flebilem
videns in ruina,
florem delectabilem
produxit de spina;
produxit de spina
virgo que regina,
mundi medicina,
salus gencium.
Nequivit divinitas
plus humiliari,
nec nostra fragilitas
magis exaltari;
magis exaltari
quam celo locari,
deo coequari
per conjugium.

Translation

Behold, nature
changes her law:
a pure virgin
bears God’s son.
Behold, a new joy,
behold, new wonder:
a virgin bears a son
without knowing man;
without knowing man,
but as the pear tree bears a pear,
the earth creates a sapphire
and the rose a lily.
This doleful world
God saw in ruins,
so a delectable rose
he produced from the thorn;
he produced from the thorn
a virgin queen,
a healing for the world
and the salvation of its people.
Divinity could not be
more humbled,
nor could our fragility
be more exalted;
more exalted
than to be placed in heaven,
equal with God,
through this union.