US DEUS SABAOTH[2]:
PLENI SUNT CAELI ET TERRA MAJESTATIS GLORIAE TUAE[2].

4. TE gloriosus Apostolorum chorus, TE Prophetarum laudabilis numerus:
TE Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.

5. TE per orbem terrarum sancta confitetur ecclesia:
Patrem immensae majestatis.
Venerandum tuum verum et unicum Filium.
Sanctum quoque Paracletum Spiritum.

6. TU Rex gloriae, Christe: TU Patris sempiternus es Filius.

7. TU ad liberandum suscepturus hominem non horruisti Virginis uterum:
TU devicto mortis aculeo aperuisti credentibus regna caelorum.

8. TU ad dexteram Dei sede(n)s in gloria Patris:
Judex crederis esse venturus.

9. TE ergo quaesumus famulis tuis subveni quos pretioso
sanguine redemisti:
Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis in gloria munerari.

10. Salvum fac populum tuum Domine et benedic haereditati tuae[3]:
et rege eos et extolle illos usque in aeternum[3].

11. PER SINGULOS DIES BENEDICIMUS TE[4]:
ET LAUDAMUS NOMEN TUUM IN SAECULUM ET SAECULUM SAECULI[4].

12. Dignare Domine die isto sine peccato nos custodire:
miserere nostri Domine, miserere nostri[5].

13. Fiat misericordia tua Domine super nos quemadmodum
speravimus in TE[6]:
in TE Domine speravi, non confundar in aeternum[7].

[1] Isaiah ix. 6.
[2] Isaiah vi. 3, cf. Rev. iv. 8.
[3] Psalm xxviii. 9.
[4] Psalm cxlv. 2.
[5] Psalm cxxiii. 3.
[6] Psalm xxxiii. 22.
[7] Psalm xxxi. 1 and lxxi. 1.

_Note_. Some readers will at first sight be afraid of the Latin form
of the Te Deum. It is however so important to the clear understanding
of this beautiful Hymn that we hope they will piece together the
English words and their Latin equivalents.

The task will not be really difficult, for most of the words are almost
English already.

It will not surprise them to find that _Tu_ is Thou, and _Te_ Thee,
that _Tibi_ is To Thee, and _Dominum_ Lord, and so on. We think that
most of the words will be understood by any one who is familiar with
the English.

_Aculeo_, in line 7, means _sting_, and _crederis esse venturus_ means
_Thou-art-believed to-be about-to-come_.

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CHAPTER VIII.

PRAISE.

IV. Te Deum laudamus.

This ancient Latin Hymn of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ has
in many Service-books been attributed to S. Ambrose and S. Augustine.
One of the stor