In this post, I offer a translation of the third poem in Book 1 of Georg Fabricius’s Hymns. I have once again used iambic tetrameters with rhyme in the second and fourth lines of each stanza.
First, in Latin:
CHRISTUS APOSTOLOS docens, et pro iis orans.
I. Ioan. II. Advocatum habeamus apud patrem, Iesum Christum, iustum: et ipse est propitiatio.
HORA OCTAVA.
Tristem timorem pellite:
In me, Patremque credite:
Sum vita, veritas, via,
Et spes salutis unica.
Sum vitis, et vos palmites,
Efferte fructus uberes.
Vos mundus odit: at Pater
Caelestis ipse diligit.
Hunc inuocate per meum
Nomen, sacrum qui spiritum
Demittet: is contra mala
Vos roborabit omnia.
Te sancte, te voco Pater,
Nato tuo da gloriam:
Et quos dedisti, quos dabis,
Pios ministros protege.
Uno perenni et mutuo
Iungantur omnes vinculo,
Fungantur et Pater tua
In sempiternum gloria.
Pater, dedisti quos mihi,
Mecum, volo, sint singuli:
Eos ama, ante condita
Ut diligis me saecula.
Next, in English:
Christ Teaching the Apostles
1 John 2: “We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is our propitiation.”
At the eighth hour.
Put forlorn fear swiftly to flight;
Put faith in my Father and me.
I am the life, the truth, the way,
Salvation’s only guarantee.
I am the vine; the branches—you;
Bring forth the fruit that I create.
The Father’s love undoes above
The wounding of the world’s hate.
Therefore through My name call Him who
Will send the Holy Spirit down;
He’ll strengthen you against all ills,
Like oak trees rooted in the ground.
You, Holy Father, You I call:
Give glory to Your only Son.
The servants whom You’ve given, guard,
And those You’ll give in days to come.
Let all by one mutual love
Be bonded everlastingly;
And may they, Father, pay to You
Glory now and eternally.
Father, may those You’ve given me
With me be severally one;
Love them as you love me before
The world of time had yet begun.[1]
