[Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae]

...humanity is seen, and divinity is adored. They offered gold, frankincense, and myrrh: offering more in mysteries than in consciousness. In the gold, the gift of royal dignity; in the vapor of incense, divine majesty; and in the species of myrrh, the humanity of one to be buried is demonstrated. By their example, you, faithful soul, offer to the Lord the gold of faith, the aromatics of piety, the holocausts of chastity, and have the spiritual myrrh, which so conditions you that you are kept unharmed from all corruption of sins.

The eighth, about the oblation of Christ in the temple

Truly a wondrous humility
of our Savior, which
initiated from the very
beginning of the incarnation, shown in ineffable
degrees, continuously displays itself even up to
death. He humbled himself in the nativity,
holding himself as a poor man; in the circumcision,
showing himself even more as a poor man
among sinners, as a servant, a man,
poor indeed in that he, the possessor of heaven
and earth, chose the oblation of the poor to
be offered to God for himself. As a man
among sinners, in that he wished to be
expiated by oblations, he who had come as the
fountain of purity to make purgations for
delicts; and as a servant, a man, in that he
himself, who had come to redeem the world,
wished to be redeemed legally. Which all
these things the Son of God did not for his
own sake, but for ours, both that by fulfilling
the law he might liberate us from the burden
of the law, and as an example of humility.
What a wondrous example of humility, which
his most blessed Mother followed most
devoutly, although she was singularly above
the law, she who knew no man in her womb.
It had become a temple of the Holy Spirit,
she did not refuse to be subject even to legal
institutions, although she was most liberated
from all subjection of the law. Truly a blessed
Virgin, says Bernard: "You have no cause,
nor do you have need for purification,
but your Son never had need for circumcision."
Be it as it may, among women one of them
remains your Son, so it is in the number of boys.
O admirable and immense humility of God and
our Lord Jesus Christ and his blessed ever-Virgin
and Mother. He himself indeed, who gave the
law, did not deign to be subject to the decrees
of the law. And he who had been conceived
and born without sin and all human concupiscence
wished to be carried to the temple of the Lord
as if polluted and unclean, and there, with his
untouched mother, wished to be purified by a
legal sacrifice. Behold, faithful soul, you have
in Christ and in his glorious mother a
multiple example of humility, a medicine for pride,
a foundation of virtues.