Euge serve bone

General information

There are 2 Antiphons at Vespers beginning thus: from the Common of a Confessor not a Pope, ending "…supra multa te constituam: intra in gaudium Domini tui.", and for a Confessor Pontiff, ending "…supra multa te constituam, dicit Dominus."
Both are based on Matthew 25:21. See also: Euge serve bone (Philippe Duc).

Notes on selected settings

• Orazio Vecchi SATB (Variant 1)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Jacob Handl — Euge serve bone  Latin SSATTB
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck — Euge serve bone  Latin SSATB
• José de Torres — Euge serve bone  Latin ST
• Orazio Vecchi — Euge serve bone  Latin SATB

Text and translations

Version 1, set by Handl, Sweelinck & Torres

Latin text 25:21  Euge serve bone, et fidelis: quia super pauca fuisti fidelis, super multa te constituam; intra in gaudium Domini tui.

English translation 25:21  Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.

Version 2, set by Vecchi

Latin text Euge serve bone, in modico fidelis, intra in gaudium Domini tui. Fidelis servus et prudens, quem constituit Dominus super familiam suam, intra in gaudium Domini tui. Euge serve…

English translation Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.