教会唯一的根基
《教会根基歌》（英语：The Church's One Foundation），又译教会唯一的根基或教会独一的根基，是一首由撒母耳·约翰·斯通撰写的基督教圣诗。
这诗歌直接回应首任纳塔尔主教约翰·威廉·哥伦素当时被认为偏离正道的教导，他在南非圣公会制造了内部纷争。[1]歌词第四段“虽她受尽了困难，旁人嘲笑讥评，内争分裂了她身，异端叛道离经”(普天颂赞版)点出了这主题。哥伦素主教因他的教导而被撤职，但他向英格兰的更高教会机构上诉。
就在这时，约翰·斯通被牵涉入争辩当中。这启发了他1866年撰写了以使徒信经为基础的一套诗歌。他为诗歌命名为“Lyra Fidelium；使徒信经十二节的十二首诗歌”，《教会唯一的根基》就是根据第九节“神圣大公教会；圣徒相通”创作的。
歌谱通常是撒母耳·萨巴士田·卫斯理选定的“Aurelia”。[2]
歌词 编辑
- 1 The Church's one foundation
- Is Jesus Christ her Lord,
- She is His new creation
- By water and the Word.
- From heaven He came and sought her
- To be His holy bride;
- With His own blood He bought her
- And for her life He died.
- 2 She is from every nation,
- Yet one o'er all the earth;
- Her charter of salvation,
- One Lord, one faith, one birth;
- One holy Name she blesses,
- Partakes one Holy Food,
- And to one Hope she presses,
- With every grace endued.
- 3 The Church shall never perish!
- Her dear Lord to defend,
- To guide, sustain, and cherish,
- Is with her to the end:
- Though there be those who hate her,
- And false sons in her pale,
- Against or foe or traitor
- She ever shall prevail.
- 4 Though with a scornful wonder
- Men see her sore oppressed,
- By schisms rent asunder,
- By heresies distressed:
- Yet saints their watch are keeping,
- Their cry goes up, "How long?"
- And soon the night of weeping
- Shall be the morn of song!
- 5 'Mid toil and tribulation,
- And tumult of her war,
- She waits the consummation
- Of peace forevermore;
- Till, with the vision glorious,
- Her longing eyes are blest,
- And the great Church victorious
- Shall be the Church at rest.
- 6 Yet she on earth hath union
- With God the Three in One,
- And mystic sweet communion
- With those whose rest is won,
- With all her sons and daughters
- Who, by the Master's Hand
- Led through the deathly waters,
- Repose in Eden land.
- 7 O happy ones and holy!
- Lord, give us grace that we
- Like them, the meek and lowly,
- On high may dwell with Thee:
- There, past the border mountains,
- Where in sweet vales the Bride
- With Thee by living fountains
- Forever shall abide! Amen
参考资料 编辑
外部链接 编辑
- The Church's one foundation
- Lyrics （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
- Lyra Fidelium Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostle's Creed by S. J. Stone, B.A., CURATE OF WINDSOR
- Bad things done to good hymns by TAPANI posted on MAY 30, 2012
- Autograph Manuscript of "The Church's One Foundation" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）