Ante-Nicene Fathers (Volume 6) - IV - Gregory's Spurious Writings concluded

Required reading
Ante-Nicene Fathers (Vol 6) (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude Gregory's Spurious Writings.

My summary
Today we finish reading the spurious writings of Gregory.

We read:
(i) three homilies on the announcement to Mary from the angel Gabriel that she will give birth to Jesus.
(ii) a homily about Christ's baptism;
(iii) a discourse about the work of Christ for the saints;
(iv) a comment on Matthew 6:22-23.

What grabbed me
I don't like such exaltation of Mary: 'Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee!" For it is thine truly to rejoice, seeing that the grace of God, as he knows, has chosen to dwell with thee—the Lord of glory dwelling with the handmaiden; "He that is fairer than the children of men" with the fair virgin; He who sanctifies all things with the undefiled. God is with thee, and with thee also is the perfect man in whom dwells the whole fulness of the Godhead. Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the fountain of the light that lightens all who believe upon Him! Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the rising of the rational Sun, and the undefiled flower of Life! Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the mead of sweet savour! Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the ever-blooming vine, that makes glad the souls of those who honour thee! Hail, thou that art highly favoured!—the soil that, all untilled, bears bounteous fruit: for thou hast brought forth in accordance with the law of nature indeed, as it goes with us, and by the set time of practice, and yet in a way beyond nature, or rather above nature, by reason that God the Word from above took His abode in thee, and formed the new Adam in thy holy womb, and inasmuch as the Holy Ghost gave the power of conception to the holy virgin; and the reality of His body was assumed from her body. And just as the pearl comes of the two natures, namely lightning and water, the occult signs of the sea; so also our Lord Jesus Christ proceeds, without fusion and without mutation, from the pure, and chaste, and undefiled, and holy Virgin Mary; perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, in all things equal to the Father, and in all things consubstantial with us, apart from sin.'

I'd rather 'Hail!' Christ than Mary.

Next week's reading
Commence the Extant Fragments of Dionysius by reading 'Part I - Containing various sections of the works'.

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.