Gabriel's Message

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Gabriel's message does away

Translator: J. M. Neale
Tune: ANGELUS EMITTITUR
Published in 7 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Gabriel's message does away
Satan's curse and Satan's sway,
out of darkness brings our Day:

Refrain:
so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold.

2 He that comes despised shall reign;
he that cannot die, be slain;
death by death its death shall gain: [Refrain]

3 Weakness shall the strong confound;
by the hands, in grave clothes wound,
Adam's chains shall be unbound. [Refrain]

Source: Common Praise (1998) #268

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Translator: J. M. Neale

John M. Neale's life is a study in contrasts: born into an evangelical home, he had sympathies toward Rome; in perpetual ill health, he was incredibly productive; of scholarly temperament, he devoted much time to improving social conditions in his area; often ignored or despised by his contemporaries, he is lauded today for his contributions to the church and hymnody. Neale's gifts came to expression early–he won the Seatonian prize for religious poetry eleven times while a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1842, but ill health and his strong support of the Oxford Movement kept him from ordinary parish ministry. So Neale spent the years between 1846 and 1866 as a warden of Sackvi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Gabriel's message does away
Title:	Gabriel's Message
Translator:	J. M. Neale
Meter:	7.7.7 with refrain
Source:	Piae Cantiones, 1582
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	So, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold
Copyright:	Public Domain