Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

The lines express an inward, devotional understanding of Christianity: the Incarnation is not treated primarily as a distant historical event but as a recurring spiritual reality within the individual. “Brought to birth” suggests that Christ’s life begins anew in the human soul through faith, conscience, and moral transformation. The claim that “there He lives and dies” implies that Christ’s passion is also reenacted internally—through suffering, self-sacrifice, repentance, and the daily struggle against sin. The emphasis is mystical and ethical rather than doctrinal: the true arena of redemption is the interior life, where belief must become lived experience.