Statuta decreto Dei
For Advent: Evensong.
Words: Charles Coffin, from the Paris Breviary, 1736
English Translations:
The Rolling Years At
Length Fulfil
Deep Hidden, By
Divine Decree
Predestinate of God
Most High
Source: Carolo Coffin, Hymni Sacri (Paris: Usuum Parisiensium, 1736), pp. 35-36.
Statuta decreto Dei
Tandem propinquant tempora:
Emptus tot annorum morâ
Affulget è cœlo dies.
Patris nefando crimine
Proles jacebat saucia:
In mortis umbrâ conditum
Sedebat humanum genus.
Morti secundæ debitos
Et sempiternis ignibus
Horrenda justi Judicis
Manebat expectatio.
Heu! quis ruinæ tam gravis
Sarcire damna; quæ manus
Afferre tam grandi queat
Parem medelam vulneri?
Tu, Christe, tu solus tuo
Delapsus è throno Deus ,
Imagini potes tuæ
Formam decusque reddere.
Rorate cœli desuper,
Justumque fœcundo sinu
Complexa tellus perdito
Orbi salutem germinet.
Sit sempiterna laus tìbi,
Verbum Patris factum caro ,
Cum Patre cumque Spiritu,
Nunc & per omne seculum.
Amen.
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