The Cyber Hymnal ‎#593

593. Behold the Messengers of Christ

1. Behold the messengers of Christ,
Who bear to every place,
The unveiled mysteries of God,
The Gospel of His grace.

2. The things through mists and shadows dim
By holy prophets seen,
In the full light of day they saw
With not a cloud between.

3. What Christ, true Man, divinely wrought,
What God in manhood bore,
They wrote, as God inspired, in words
That live forevermore.

4. Although in space and time apart,
One Spirit ruled them all;
And in their sacred pages still
We hear that Spirit’s call.

5. To God, the blessèd Three in One,
Be glory, praise, and might,
Who called us from the shades of death
To His own glorious light.

Text Information

• First Line: Behold the messengers of Christ
• Title: Behold the Messengers of Christ
• Spanish Title: Christi perennes nuntii
• Author: Jean de Santëuil (1686)
• Translator (from Latin): Isaac Williams
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Cluniac Breviary, 1686; Translation in Christ's Everlasting Messengers & the compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: TIVERTON, Rev. J. Grigg, circa 1791

Tune Information

• Name: CLIFTON (Turpin)
• Composer: Edmund Hart Turpin (1875)
• Meter: CM
• Incipit: 56534 51123 45625
• Key: D Major
• Source: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875
• Copyright: Public Domain