2. Let us, then, celebrate the Lord’s birthday with the full attendance and the enthusiasm that we should give it. Let men rejoice, let women rejoice. Christ was born Man; He was born of woman. Both sexes have been honored. Let him, therefore, who had been condemned before in the first man, now become a follower of the Second Man.10 A woman had been the cause of our death; a woman, again, gave birth to life for us. The likeness of sinful flesh11 was