| 1 | Christ is the mystery of God; |
| | God is invisible, unshown, |
| | His image man hath never seen, |
| | But Christ the Son hath made Him known. |
| 2 | Christ is the very Word of God, |
| | He is God’s explanation true; |
| | God’s full embodiment is He |
| | And God’s own image brings to view. |
| 3 | Image of God invisible, |
| | Effulgence of God’s glory fair; |
| | God’s fulness ever dwells in Him, |
| | God’s testimony He doth bear. |
| 4 | The Church the myst’ry is of Christ, |
| | For He is now to man unshown; |
| | No man on earth may see Him now, |
| | But thru the Church He is made known. |
| 5 | The Church is Christ’s expression full, |
| | In her Christ dwelleth bodily; |
| | She is His duplication true, |
| | And man in her Himself may see. |
| 6 | The Church the image has of Christ, |
| | She is His increase and His spread; |
| | Christ’s very self is found in her |
| | The Body, she, to Christ the Head. |
| 7 | Thus, in the Son the Father is, |
| | And now the Spirit is the Son; |
| | The Spirit of the triune God |
| | Is in the Church and with her one. |
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