1 Adeste fideles
Laeti triumphantes
Venite, venite in Bethlehem
Natum videte
Regem angelorum
[Refrain:]
Venite adoremus venite adoremus
Venite adoremus Dominum
2 Cantet nunc io
Chorus angelorum
Cantet nunc aula caelestium
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
[Refrain]
3 Ergo qui natus
Die hodierna
Jesus, tibi sit gloria
Patris aeterni
Verbum caro factum
[Refrain]
| First Line: | Adeste fideles laeti, triumphantes |
| Title: | Adeste Fideles |
| Original Language: | Latin |
| Author: | John Francis Wade |
| Meter: | Irregular with refrain |
| Source: | "Cantus Diversi" John F. Wade, 1751 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Refrain First Line: | Venite, adoremus |
| Notes: | Dutch translations: "Komt allen te zaâm in de geest naar 't Kindje henen", "Komt allen te zamen" by W. Wenk; English translation: See: "O Come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant" by Frederick Oakeley; French translation: "O peuble fidéle" from D'après "Louange et Prière"; German translation: See "Herbei, o ihr Gläub'gen" by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke; Polish translation: See "Pośpieszcie, o wierni" by Paweł Sikora; Spanish translation: "Venid, fieles todos,a Belén vayamos" by Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars; Swahili translation: See "Umati wa Yesu, njooni kwa furaha" |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
Adeste fideles. In the Evening Office of the Church in Latin and English, London 1760, this hymn consists of stanzas i., ii., vii., viii. of the text. Concerning the translation it must be noted:—
1. That to Canon Oakeley's translation as in the Altar Hymnal, 1884, No. 7, Mr. W. T. Brooke added a translation of stanzas iii.— vi., thus producing a translation of the full text.
2. The translation No. 7, "Come hither, ye faithful," is attributed, in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868, to "C. P. Krauth."
3. "Come, all ye faithful," in the Roman Catholic Hymns for the year, 1867, is a slightly altered form of Neale's translation (No. 9), which dates 1854.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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