ELHB Hymn 221
"Christ, the Lord, is risen today"
Charles Wesley (1739)
Hymn Text
221. "Christ, the Lord, is risen today"
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1 "Christ, the Lord, is risen today,"
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, ye heavens, and, earth, reply.
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, ye heavens, and, earth, reply.
2 Love's redeeming work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won;
Lo! our Sun's eclipse is o'er;
Lo! He sets in blood no more.
Fought the fight, the battle won;
Lo! our Sun's eclipse is o'er;
Lo! He sets in blood no more.
3 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
Christ has burst the gates of hell.
Death in vain forbids His rise;
Christ has opened Paradise.
Christ has burst the gates of hell.
Death in vain forbids His rise;
Christ has opened Paradise.
4 Lives again our glorious King;
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Dying once, He all doth save;
Where thy victory, O grave?
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Dying once, He all doth save;
Where thy victory, O grave?
5 Soar we now where Christ has led,
Following our exalted Head;
Made like Him, like Him we rise;
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies!
Following our exalted Head;
Made like Him, like Him we rise;
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies!
Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #221