On Christmas Day, 1988,1 received from Marc Deprez the draft of an article entitled Noël et Hanoucah, which threw some further light on the imagery used in the kontakion translated by me in BMGS 12. On p. 146 I referred to ‘a verbal reminiscence of the Feast of Booths’, where the poet writes: In celebrating the Word’s divine sojourn in the Body may we, the children of his Church, be thatched with luminous virtues worthy of his grace, and may we prove, by divine illumination, a worthy dwelling-place of knowledge... But I did not know why the Feast of Booths was especially relevant to the occasion of the kontakion, which was Christmas Day.