Unus ex discipulis
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No. 3 of Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
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- Jeffrey Quick SSATBB
Original text and translations
Latin text
Unus ex discipulis meis tradit me hodie.
Vae illi per quem tradar ego.
Melius illi erat si natus non fuisset.
Qui intingit mecum manum in paropside,
hic me traditurus est in manu peccatorum.
English translation
One of my disciples will betray me today.
Woe to him by whom I am betrayed.
It were better for him if he had not been born.
He that dips his hand with me in the dish,
Is he who will give me up into the hands of sinners.