Author: Benjamin T. Tanner Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 From out the tomb the Savior comes,
The first of all the dead;
From out the tomb the Savior comes,
To be our living head.
2 What is the stone His foes have placed
To make secure the grave?
And what the great Sanhedrin seal
The priests so freely gave?
3 He must wake, He must arise,
For have not prophets said,
God’s Holy One shall never share
Corruption with the dead?
4 Now see, in shimmering light, He leaves
The dead, no more to die.
Conqueror of sin, and death and hell,
He re-ascends the sky. Used With Tune: METROPOLITAN Text Sources: African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book Philadelphia: African Methodist Episcopal Book Concern, 1898)
From Out The Tomb The Savior Comes