Viri Galilaei

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Source of text is Acts 1:11

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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck SSATB

Original text and translations

Latin text

1:11 Viri Galilaei, quid statis aspicientes in coelum?
Hic Jesus, qui assumptus est a vobis in coelum,
sic veniet quemadmodum vidistis eum euntem in coelum. Alleluia.

English translation

1:11 Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Alleluia.