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基督复活升天

凌风 译

你们寻求主的谦卑人，
　　驱除所有的惧怕惊惶；
心中欢狂低头观看，
　　主耶稣躺臥的地方。

生命之主如此降卑，
　　何等大爱所作的奇蹟；
如此躺臥在冰冷的死地，
　　受创流血是为了你。

抬起眼睛再发歌声，
　　我们的救主又再复生；
任凭死亡所有的闩锁，
　　也不能把得胜的主拘禁。

祂的头曾受辱受伤，
　　高昂在天使群众之上，
祂曾经进入过死亡，
　　要永远掌权统治无疆。

同主欢乐的众圣徒，
　　来观看我主的空墓，
也要复活与升天的主
　　同在永远光明的国度。

　　道瑞治，英国独立教会教牧，宗教作家，圣诗作家。

Christ's Resurrection and Ascension

Ye humble souls that seek the Lord,
　　Chase all your fears away;
And bow with rapture down to see
　　The place where Jesus lay.

Thus low the Lord of Life was brought,
　　Such wonders love can do;
Thus cold in death that bosom lay,
　　Which throbbed and bled for you.

But raise your eyes and tune your songs;
　　The Saviour lives again:
Not all the bolts and bars of death
　　The Conqueror could detain.

High o'er the angelic bands He rears
　　His once dishonoured head;
And through unnumbered years He reigns,
　　Who dwelt among the dead.

With joy like His shall every saint
　　His vacant tomb survey;
Then rise with his ascending Lord
　　To realms of endless day.

Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
English non-conformist preacher and hymn writer