 | Renaissance English Text Society, Newberry Library - 1984 - 132 pages
...Comforter. 14 Thou art the King of glory, O Christ! 15 Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. 16 When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man, Thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb. 17 When Thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, Thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers:... | |
 | William J. Gatens - 1986 - 248 pages
...deliberate expressive characterisation to isolated passages. In his Te Deums, for instance, at the words 'When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death:...didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers', he generally employs some affective harmony at the word 'sharpness', then 104 brightens the harmony... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 324 pages
...the relation men bore to Christ (Hebrews 9:8; 10:19-31). Ambrose, in an ancient hymn, expressed it, "When Thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death Thou...didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers." Another supernatural salute to the conquering Saviour was the earthquake and the rent rocks. Although... | |
 | Heinz-Jürgen Vogels - 1993 - 150 pages
...holiness of the so-called membra ignorabilia (1 Cor. 12:23) is provided by Christ himself, in that "when thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the virgin's womb", as the Te Deum says. The virgin's womb was holy, not indeed because it was virgin but because it, like... | |
 | Omer Englebert - 1994 - 550 pages
...One day when he was singing in choir the verse of the Te Deum where it is said, "When thou didst take upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," he was carried away in ecstasy and fell unconscious. From that time there arose among the Benedictines... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan - 1999 - 324 pages
...political vocabulary the second stanza of the Te Deum contains: Thou art the king of glory, o Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou...upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor the Virgins womb. When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - 1997 - 208 pages
...regal dignity and condition. In the words of the ancient Te Deum: Thou art the King of glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst humble thyself to be born of a Virgin. When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of dearJi, thou didst... | |
 | William McLoughlin, Jill Pinnock - 1997 - 324 pages
...to Augustine, Julian is here, as so often, recalling the Liturgy; we think at once of the Te Deum: 'When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb'. The debate as to whether Mary was immaculately conceived, or whether she inherited the taint of Adam's... | |
 | Dwight Vogel - 2000 - 338 pages
...honorable, true and only Son, Also the Holy Ghost the Comforter. "Thou art the king of glory, O Christ, Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou...deliver man, Thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb. 114 Thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. Thou sittest at the right hand of God,... | |
 | Katherine Mansfield - 2002 - 452 pages
...out of the draught from the door. In fancy he heard himself intoning extremely well: 'When thou did overcome the Sharpness of Death Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers.'* And he saw the neat brass-edged card on the corner of the pew — Mr Stanley Burnell and family. .... | |
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Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the virgin's womb. When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. 
