Luke 2.29-30: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for my eyes have seen thy salvation.

From Anglican priest and poet, John Donne (1572-1631):

The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; other die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr.  He found a Golgotha, were he was crucified, even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as the cross at last.  His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and the morning of the same day.  And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.  Every manifestation of Christ to the world, to the Church, to a particular soul is an Epiphany, a Christmas day.