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5 Non ex virili semine, Sed mystico spiramine Verbum Dei factum est caro Fructusque ventris floruit. 17 Egressus eius a patre, Regressus eius ad patrem Excursus usque ad inferos, Recursus ad sedem patris. 9 Alvus tumescit virgins, Claustrum pudoris permanet, Vexilla virtutum micant, Versatur in templo Deus. 21 Aequalis aeterno patri Carnis tropaeo cingere Infirma nostri corporis Virtute firmans perpeti. 13 Procedens thalamo suo Pudoris aula regia Geminae gigas substantiae Alacris ut currat viam. 25 Praesepe iam fulget tuum Lumenque nox spirat suum …

From Christ’s stay in his mother’s body and from his birth, there is a direct symbolic link to the dogmatic meaning of incarnation; history is abandoned, and only at the end reappears the praesepePraesepium, praesepe, just as an effulgent symbol.

(d) The symbolism of the Ambrosian text is expressed by allusions to passages of the Bible; this gives to the eulogy a figurative or typological aspect; figuralism is another new phenomenon in the eulogies, introduced by Christian influence.