Viri Galilaei

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General information

Source of text is Acts 1:11(Vulgate). Antiphon for 2nd Vespers of Ascension, which substitutes admiramini for the Vulgate's statis.

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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck SSATB

Original text and translations

Latin text

1:11 Viri Galilaei, quid statis [admiramini] aspicientes in coelum?
Hic Jesus, qui assumptus est a vobis in coelum,
sic veniet quemadmodum vidistis eum euntem in coelum. Alleluia.

English translation

1:11 Ye men of Galilee, why stand [wonder] ye gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Alleluia.