Tres sunt qui testimonium dant

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Motet for Trinity Sunday.
Source of text: 1 John 5:7

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Text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo:
Pater, Verbum et Spiritus Sanctus:
et hi tres unum sunt. (1 John 5:7)

continuation in Pacelli:
Unus Deus, una fides, unum baptisma,
Unus Deus et pater omnium, qui est super omnes et super omnia,
et in omnibus nobis, (Ephesians 4:5-6)
Qui est benedictus in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

continuation used by Victoria:
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus.

English.png English translation

There are three who give testimony in heaven:
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one. (Rheims NT, 1582)

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all, who is above all,
and through all, and in you all,
And who is blessed for ever and ever. Amen.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.

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