{"sedulius-hymni/1":{"o":"Cantemus, socii, Domino, cantemus honorem,\nDulcis amor Christi personet ore pio.\nPrimus ad ima ruit magna de luce superbus:\nSic homo, cum tumuit, primus ad ima ruit.\nVnius ob meritum cuncti periere minores:\nSaluantur cuncti unius ob meritum.\nSola fuit mulier, patuit quae ianua leto:\nEt qua uita redit, sola fuit mulier.\nFrater iniquus erat iustum qui perculit olim:\nDamnator Christi frater iniquus erat.\nTransitus ille monet, quid prima amisit origo:\nQuid uentura parent, transitus ille monet.\nArca leuatur aquis, homines ut perderet aequor:\nNe pereant homines, arca leuatur aquis.\nSume, pater, populos pro nati uulnere cunctos:\nCum tradis Christum, sume, pater, populos.\nHostia summa Patris, tacitis signata figuris:\nQuam reserat Christus, hostia summa Patris.\nClaudicat ecce uidens Dominum, dum praeualet, heres:\nAspera gens Christum claudicat ecce uidens.\nReppulit ille famem, uenditus crimine fratrum:\nVenditus est Christus, reppulit ille famem.\nPerfide, corde peris, dum uastant omnia plagae:\nDum cessant plagae, perfide, corde peris. Agnus ab hoste sacer reuocauit sanguine patres:\nSanguine nosque refert agnus ab hoste sacer.\nObruit unda nefas populo gradiente per aequor:\nNunc populis mundi obruit unda nefas.\nMurmurat impietas, manna ueniente refecta:\nPanis adest Christus, murmurat impietas.\nPlebs sibi dura caput terrae cultoris adoptat:\nAbstulit, heu, Christum plebs sibi dura caput.\nLex dedit indicium ueteris de crimine poenae:\nQuodque salus ueniat, lex dedit indicium. En lapis inriguus, satiare, incredule, fonte:\nQui Christum reprobus, en lapis inriguus.\nCarpitur igne sacro munus uotumque piorum:\nSeditiosa tribus carpitur igne sacro.\nRegna beata Patris legis non contigit heres:\nIesus dispensat regna beata Patris.\nDistruit arca Dei, muros dum circuit, hostem:\nSic hostem mundi distruit arca Dei.\nArea uellus habet, madido sed uellere sicca est:\nSiccum tota madens area uellus habet.\nVincis honore Dei promisso in munere gentes:\nAffectum natae uincis honore Dei.\nTu decus omne tuis, qui sternis caede Goliam:\nQui uincis mundum, tu decus omne tuis.\nMaxima dona Dei cuncti cecinere prophetae:\nImpleuit Christus maxima dona Dei.\nPondera dura tulit mandatum legis et iram:\nGratia mandati pondera dura tulit.\nVirgo Maria nitet nullo temerante pudore:\nPost partum pueri uirgo Maria nitet.\nFilius hic hominis fit maxima quaestio mundi:\nNobiscum Deus est filius hic hominis.\nGaudia magna Dei mundus percepit et ambit:\nRespuit, heu, mundus gaudia magna Dei.\nSigna mouent populos, cernunt magnalia caeci:\nNulla tamen duros signa mouent populos.\nAspera mors populis ligno deducta cucurrit:\nAufertur ligno aspera mors populis.\nIpse tulit Dominus pro poenis munera seruis:\nPro seruis poenas ipse tulit Dominus.\nVita beata necem miseris auertere uenit:\nPertulit a miseris uita beata necem.\nLumen adesse Dei persensit tartarus ingens:\nNec cernunt homines lumen adesse Dei.\nMors fera per hominem miserum sibi subdidit orbem:\nSubdita congemuit mors fera per hominem.\nSuscitat ecce genus morti pater ille profanus:\nAd uitam Christus suscitat ecce genus.\nHic populus Dominum dura ceruice negauit:\nSuscepit primus hic populus Dominum.\nSanguine laeta redit fuso gens impia Christi:\nGustato Christi sanguine laeta redit.\nCrimina cuncta suis terrenus contulit auctor:\nDissoluit Christus crimina cuncta suis.\nLibera corda sibi facinus deuinxerat olim:\nNunc reficit Christus libera corda sibi.\nFortia uincla dedit peccati saeua potestas:\nDulcis amor Christi fortia uincla dedit.\nIam super astra sedet, cuncti exultate fideles:\nPerfide, quid saeuis? iam super astra sedet.\nMortuus ille tonat, caelum terramque subegit:\nQuid facient hostes? mortuus ille tonat.\nPellitur umbra die, Christo ueniente figura:\nChristus adit gentes, pellitur umbra die.\nTe properare docent et signa et saecula prima:\nNos sacra quae gerimus te properare docent.\nVnicus adueniens firmauit uota priorum:\nVota dedit nobis unicus adueniens.\nPassio, Christe, tui conpleuit munera legis:\nMunera nostra replet passio, Christe, tui.\nHic homo qui Deus est, spes est antiqua priorum:\nSpes in fine piis hic homo, qui Deus est.\nMunus erit fidei toto credentibus aeuo:\nQui dedit ut credant, munus erit fidei.\nTe ueniente, Deus, mundanus concidit error:\nOccidit hic mundus te ueniente, Deus.\nGratia plena Dei est, quae totis gentibus extat:\nAbscedant sectae, gratia plena Dei est.\nSola columba redit, quae totum circuit orbem:\nDiscedant corui, sola columba redit.\nAdueniet Dominus dare digna piis, mala prauis:\nCredite iam, miseri, adueniet Dominus.\nVisio, Christe, tui tormentum et poena malorum est:\nGloria cuncta bonis uisio, Christe, tui.\nGloria magna Patri, semper tibi gloria, Nate:\nCum sancto Spiritu gloria magna Patri.","t":"Let us sing, companions, to the Lord, let us sing his honor;\nlet the sweet love of Christ resound from a pious mouth.\nFirst the proud one fell to the depths from the great light:\nso man, when he swelled with pride, first fell to the depths.\nThrough the guilt of one all those after him perished:\nall are saved through the merit of one.\nIt was a woman alone who opened the door to death:\nand she through whom life returns, it was a woman alone.\nA wicked brother it was who once struck down the just:\nthe condemner of Christ, a wicked brother it was.\nThat Passover warns what the first origin lost:\nwhat things to come prepare, that Passover warns.\nThe ark is lifted by the waters when the sea would destroy men:\nlest men perish, the ark is lifted by the waters.\nTake, Father, all peoples in return for your Son's wound:\nwhen you hand over Christ, take, Father, the peoples.\nThe Father's highest victim, signified in silent figures:\nwhich Christ unlocks, the Father's highest victim.\nSee, the heir limps, seeing the Lord while he prevails:\nthe harsh nation, seeing Christ, see, limps.\nHe drove off famine, sold by the crime of his brothers:\nChrist was sold, he drove off famine.\nFaithless one, you perish in heart while the plagues lay all waste:\nwhen the plagues cease, faithless one, you perish in heart.\nThe holy lamb called the fathers back from the enemy by blood:\nby blood the holy lamb brings us back from the enemy.\nThe wave overwhelmed wickedness as the people walked through the sea:\nnow for the peoples of the world the wave overwhelms wickedness.\nImpiety murmurs, though refreshed as the manna comes:\nChrist the bread is present, impiety murmurs.\nThe hard people adopts a tiller of the earth as its head:\nalas, the hard people took Christ away as its head.\nThe law gave a sign from the crime of an old punishment:\nand that salvation would come, the law gave a sign.\nSee, the watering rock; be satisfied from its spring, unbeliever:\nthe rock you rejected, Christ, see, the watering rock.\nThe gift and the vow of the pious are taken by sacred fire:\nthe seditious tribe is taken by sacred fire.\nThe heir of the law did not reach the Father's blessed kingdom:\nJesus dispenses the Father's blessed kingdom.\nThe ark of God destroys the enemy as it goes round the walls:\nso the ark of God destroys the enemy of the world.\nThe threshing floor has a fleece, but is dry while the fleece is wet:\nthe whole threshing floor, wet, has a dry fleece.\nYou conquer the nations by the honor of God in the promised gift:\nyou conquer love for your daughter by the honor of God.\nYou are all the glory of your people, who lay Goliath low:\nyou who conquer the world, you are all the glory of your people.\nAll the prophets sang the greatest gifts of God:\nChrist fulfilled the greatest gifts of God.\nThe command of the law and wrath brought hard burdens:\nthe grace of the command bore the hard burdens.\nThe virgin Mary shines, her chastity violated by none:\nafter giving birth to the boy, the virgin Mary shines.\nThis Son of Man becomes the greatest question of the world:\nGod with us is this Son of Man.\nThe world received and embraces the great joys of God:\nalas, the world rejects the great joys of God.\nSigns move the peoples, the blind see mighty works:\nyet no signs move the hard peoples.\nHarsh death, brought by a tree, ran upon the peoples:\nharsh death is taken from the peoples by a tree.\nThe Lord himself bore gifts for his servants in place of punishments:\nfor his servants the Lord himself bore the punishments.\nBlessed Life came to turn death away from the wretched:\nblessed Life endured death from the wretched.\nHuge Tartarus perceived that the light of God was present:\nyet men do not see that the light of God is present.\nFierce death subjected the world to itself through wretched man:\nfierce death, subjected, groaned through a man.\nSee, that profane father rouses a race for death:\nChrist, see, rouses a race for life.\nThis people denied the Lord with a stiff neck:\nthis people first received the Lord.\nThe impious nation that shed the blood of Christ returns glad:\nhaving tasted Christ's blood, it returns glad.\nThe earthly author brought all crimes on his own:\nChrist dissolved all crimes for his own.\nCrime had once bound free hearts to itself:\nnow Christ remakes free hearts for himself.\nThe cruel power of sin gave strong chains:\nthe sweet love of Christ gave strong chains.\nNow he sits above the stars; exult, all you faithful:\nfaithless one, why do you rage? Now he sits above the stars.\nHe who died thunders, he has subdued heaven and earth:\nwhat will his enemies do? He who died thunders.\nThe shadow, the figure, is driven off by day as Christ comes:\nChrist comes to the nations, the shadow is driven off by day.\nBoth the signs and the first ages teach you to hasten:\nthe sacred rites we perform teach you to hasten.\nThe Only-begotten, coming, confirmed the hopes of those before:\nthe Only-begotten, coming, gave hopes to us.\nYour passion, Christ, fulfilled the gifts of the law:\nyour passion, Christ, fills our gifts.\nThis man who is God is the ancient hope of those before:\nthe hope of the pious at the end is this man who is God.\nHe will be the gift of faith to believers through all time:\nhe who granted them to believe will be the gift of faith.\nAt your coming, God, worldly error fell:\nthis world perished at your coming, God.\nFull is the grace of God, which stands out among all nations:\nlet the sects depart; full is the grace of God.\nThe dove alone returns, which goes round the whole world:\nlet the ravens depart; the dove alone returns.\nThe Lord will come to give the pious what they deserve, and evil to the wicked:\nbelieve now, wretched ones; the Lord will come.\nThe sight of you, Christ, is the torment and punishment of the wicked:\nall glory for the good is the sight of you, Christ.\nGreat glory to the Father, glory always to you, Son:\nwith the Holy Spirit, great glory to the Father.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Hymn.</i> 1 (CSEL 10:156; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-hymni/1)."},"sedulius-hymni/2":{"o":"A solis ortus cardine\nAdusque terrae limitem\nChristum canamus principem,\nNatum Maria uirgine.\nBeatus auctor saeculi\nSeruile corpus induit,\nVt carne carnem liberans\nNon perderet quod condidit.\nClausae parentis uiscera\nCaelestis intrat gratia,\nVenter puellae baiulat\nSecreta quae non nouerat.\nDomus pudici pectoris\nTemplum repente fit Dei,\nIntacta nesciens uirum\nVerbo creauit filium.\nEnixa est puerpera\nQuem Gabrihel praedixerat,\nQuem matris aluo gestiens\nClausus Iohannes senserat.\nFaeno iacere pertulit,\nPraesepe non abhorruit,\nParuoque lacte pastus est,\nPer quem nec ales esurit.\nGaudet chorus caelestium,\nEt angeli canunt Deum,\nPalamque fit pastoribus\nPastor creatorque omnium.\nHostis Herodes impie,\nChristum uenire quid times?\nNon eripit mortalia\nQui regna dat caelestia.\nIbant magi qua uenerant,\nStellam sequentes praeuiam;\nLumen requirunt lumine,\nDeum fatentur munere.\nKaterua matrum personat,\nConlisa deflens pignora,\nQuorum tyrannus milia\nChristo sacrauit uictimam.\nLauacra puri gurgitis\nCaelestis agnus attigit,\nPeccata qui mundi tulit\nNos abluendo sustulit.\nMiraculis dedit fidem,\nHabere se Deum patrem,\nInfirma sanans corpora\nEt suscitans cadauera.\nNouum genus potentiae:\nAquae rubescunt hydriae,\nVinumque iussa fundere\nMutauit unda originem.\nOrat salutem seruulo\nNixus genu centurio,\nCredentis ardor plurimus\nExtinxit ignes febrium.\nPetrus per undas ambulat\nChristi leuatus dextera:\nNatura quam negauerat\nFides parauit semitam.\nQuarta die iam fetidus\nVitam recepit Lazarus,\nMortisque liber uinculis\nFactus superstes est sibi.\nRiuos cruoris torridi\nContacta uestis obstruit,\nFletu rigante supplicis\nArent fluenta sanguinis.\nSolutus omni corpore,\nIussus repente surgere,\nSuis uicissim gressibus\nAeger uehebat lectulum.\nTunc ille Iudas carnifex\nAusus magistrum tradere,\nPacem ferebat osculo,\nQuam non habebat pectore.\nVerax datur fallacibus,\nPium flagellat impius,\nCrucique fixus innocens\nConiunctus est latronibus.\nXeromyrrham post sabbatum\nQuaedam uehebant compares,\nQuas adlocutus angelus\nViuum sepulchro non tegi.\nYmnis uenite dulcibus,\nOmnes canamus subditum\nChristi triumpho tartarum,\nQui nos redemit uenditus.\nZelum draconis inuidi\nEt os leonis pessimi\nCalcauit unicus Dei\nSeseque caelis reddidit.","t":"From the turning point of the sun's rising\nto the boundary of the earth\nlet us sing of Christ the prince,\nborn of the virgin Mary.\nThe blessed author of the world\nput on a servant's body,\nso that, freeing flesh by flesh,\nhe might not lose what he had made.\nHeavenly grace enters\nthe womb of a closed mother;\na girl's womb carries\nsecrets which she had not known.\nThe house of a chaste breast\nsuddenly becomes the temple of God;\nuntouched, not knowing a man,\nshe conceived a son by a word.\nThe mother brought forth\nhim whom Gabriel had foretold,\nwhom John, leaping in his mother's womb,\nshut in, had perceived.\nHe endured lying on hay,\nhe did not shrink from the manger,\nand he was fed with a little milk\nthrough whom not even a bird goes hungry.\nThe choir of heaven rejoices,\nand angels sing to God,\nand to the shepherds is made known\nthe Shepherd and Creator of all.\nHerod, impious enemy,\nwhy do you fear that Christ is coming?\nHe does not snatch away mortal kingdoms\nwho gives heavenly ones.\nThe magi went where they had come,\nfollowing the star before them;\nby light they seek the Light,\nby their gift they confess God.\nThe troop of mothers cries aloud,\nweeping for their dashed children,\nwhose thousands the tyrant\nmade a sacrifice to Christ.\nThe heavenly Lamb touched\nthe bath of the pure stream;\nhe who took on himself the sins of the world\ntook them away by washing us.\nHe gave proof by miracles\nthat he had God as his Father,\nhealing weak bodies\nand raising corpses.\nA new kind of power:\nthe water jars blush red,\nand the water, commanded to pour out wine,\nchanged its origin.\nKneeling, the centurion\nbegs health for his servant boy;\nthe great ardor of the believer\nquenched the fires of fever.\nPeter walks over the waves,\nheld up by Christ's right hand:\nfaith prepared a path\nwhich nature had denied.\nOn the fourth day, already stinking,\nLazarus received life,\nand, free from the chains of death,\nbecame his own survivor.\nThe garment, touched, stopped\nthe streams of hot blood;\nas the suppliant's tears watered it,\nthe flows of blood dried up.\nLoosed in his whole body,\nsuddenly commanded to rise,\nthe sick man in turn carried his bed\non his own feet.\nThen that butcher Judas,\ndaring to betray his master,\noffered with a kiss the peace\nwhich he did not have in his heart.\nThe truthful one is handed over to liars,\nthe impious scourges the pious,\nand the innocent, fixed to the cross,\nis joined to robbers.\nAfter the Sabbath certain women companions\nwere bringing dry myrrh,\nand the angel told them\nthat the living one is not held by a tomb.\nCome with sweet hymns,\nlet us all sing of Tartarus\nsubdued by Christ's triumph,\nwho, sold, redeemed us.\nThe zeal of the envious dragon\nand the mouth of the most wicked lion\nthe Only-begotten of God trod down,\nand returned himself to the heavens.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Hymn.</i> 2 (CSEL 10:164; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-hymni/2)."}}