THE GIFT OF GIFTS
O SOURCE OF ALL GOOD,
What shall I render to thee for the gift of gifts, thine own dear Son, begotten, not created,
my Redeemer, proxy, surety, substitute,
his self-emptying incomprehensible,
his infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp.
Herein is wonder of wonders:
he came below to raise me above,
was born like me that I might become like him.
Herein is love;
when I cannot rise to him
he draws near on wings of grace,
to raise me to himself.
Herein is power;
when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
he united them in indissoluble unity,
the uncreated and the created.
Herein is wisdom;
when I was undone,
with no will to return to him,
and no intellect to devise recovery,
he came, God-incarnate,
to save me to the uttermost,
as man to die my death,
to shed satisfying blood on my behalf,
to work out a perfect righteousness for me.
哦，万善之源，
为了那恩赐中的恩赐，就是——
你自己的爱子，为你所生，非被造的那一位，
我该如何感谢你；
祂是我的救赎主，我的代表，我的中保，我的代替，
祂的虚己令人无法测透，
祂无限的爱超过人心所能把握的，
这真是奇妙中的奇妙：
祂降下，为要使我升高，
祂降生像我，为要使我可以像祂，
这就是爱！
当我不能升高到祂面前时，
他就乘着恩典的翅膀来就近我，
把我带到祂那里，
这就是大能！
当神性和人性原本无限分隔，
祂却把这非被造的和被造的二者相联合，
使之不可分开，
这就是智慧。
当我犯罪有祸，不愿向他回转，
无知以至于无法恢复，
祂来，神成为肉身，拯救我到极处，
成为人代替我死，
代替我流下满足上帝公义的血，
为我作成完全的义。
O God,
take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds,
and enlarge my mind;
let me hear good tidings of great joy,
and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore,
my conscience bathed in an ocean of repose,
my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father;
place me with ox, ass, camel, goat,
to look with them upon my Redeemer’s face,
and in him account myself delivered from sin;
let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart,
embrace him with undying faith,
exulting that he is mine and I am his.
In him thou hast given me so much
that heaven can give no more.
哦神，求你将我的灵魂带领到警醒看守羊群的牧羊人那里，
求你扩展我的心思意念，
求你使我听见大喜的好消息，
使我听见，相信，欢喜，跪拜，
求你使我的良心沐浴在安息的海洋里，
求你是我的眼界被高升，仰望与我和好的天父，
求你将我和牛、驴、骆驼和羊放在一起，
和他们一道仰望我救赎主的荣面。
在祂里面看自己是脱离了罪；
求你让我和西缅一起抱着这新生的婴孩，并贴近我的心，
用不死的信心接受祂，
因祂属我，我属祂，而大大欢喜。
在祂里面，你已赐我如此多的恩典，
就连天堂也不能再有所加添。
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