Verbum quod ante secula

For the Sunday After the Circumcision
Sabatis Ante Dominicas a Circumcisione ad Praesentationem Domini

Words: Paris Breviary, 1736
Translation: The Word, With God The Father One

Source: Breviarium Parisiense. Pars Hiemalis. (Parisiis: Sumptibus suis ediderunt Bibliopolae Usuum Parisiensium, 1736), p. 274.

Verbum quod ante secula 
Sinu paterno nasceris, 
Recens homo sub tempore 
E virginis prodis sinu.

Fatale rumpis vinculum,
Quo nos Adamus nexuit:
Reddes quod ille perdidit:
Specilla tecum nascitur.

Jam dura discis perpeti 
Quæ ferre par sontes fuit: 
Orbis saluti, fletibus 
Præludis in cunis puer.

Fis pauper, indigentia 
Nos et tua ditescimus: 
Luges, tuis et lacrymis 
Totum lavas mundi scelus.

Pannis opertus vilibus 
Lates, recumbens in specu: 
Homo superbis! et Deum 
Panni, specus non dedecent?

A Patre missus, perditi 
Qui factus es mundi salus, 
Jesu, perire non sinas, 
Tot quos emis laboribus.

Qui natus es de Virgine, 
Jesu, tibi sit gloria, 
Cum Patre, cumque Spiritu, 
In sempiterna secula.

Amen.

Sheet Music from J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #76, p. 121.

Also found in

• J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #76, p. 121.

• Rev. John Chandler, The Hymns of the Primitive Church (London: John W. Parker, 1837), p. 178.

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