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Third antiphon (to Ps 149), Morning prayer, Christmas Day, and often throughout the Octave of Christmas: "A little child is born for us today; little and yet called the mighty God, alleluia."
Source is of course Is 9:6, but cut back in such a way as to turn parvulus back into an adjective and heighten the contrast: "Parvulus enim natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis . . . et vocabitur nomen eius . . . Deus fortis. . . ." Hodie is borrowed from Lk 2:11.
One lovely parallel, taken out of context, is Dt 7:9: "the Lord thy God, he is a mighty and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations [(Dominus Deus tuus ipse est Deus fortis et fidelis custodiens pactum et misericordiam diligentibus se et his qui custodiunt praecepta eius in mille generations)]".
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