Orthodox Forge

The Nativity

Into Egypt

The Nile by night, a light cloud coming up the river, the idols of a temple shaken and fallen, and a call back out of Egypt. Scroll to watch it.

Behold the Lord sitteth upon a light cloud, and shall come into Egypt, and the graven images of Egypt shall be shaken.

Isaiah 19:1, as St Athanasius gives it

I called My Son out of Egypt.

Hosea 11:1, as St Athanasius gives it

And we also saw there the house of idols wherein all the idols that were in it fell down upon their faces on the ground when our Redeemer went into that city.

Jerome, The Histories of the Monks in the Desert of Egypt