'Let us hear, most beloved brethren, how the blessed evangelist has today set forth to us the mystery of Christ's generation,' etc. It ends: 'Therefore we celebrate this festal day not of human devotion but of divine condescension,' etc. It is noted by the excerptor as unearthed from codex 3783 of the eleventh century, and in several other manuscripts attributed to Saint Maximus. But it should rather be called a rhapsody heaped together from various places, no small part of which is read in the first sermon on the Nativity of the Lord, which we have placed among those wrongly ascribed to Saint Maximus of Turin, in the appendix, page 26.