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The Creed
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem.
ælmihtig fæder up on rodore,
þe ða sciran gesceaft sceope and worhtest
and eorðan wang ealne gesettest,
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ic þe ecne god ænne gecenne,
lustum gelyfe. þu eart lifes frea,
engla ordfruma, eorðan wealdend,
and ðu garsecges grundas geworhtest,
and þu ða menegu canst mærra tungla.
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Et in Iesum Christum filium eius unicum, dominum nostrum.
Ic on sunu þinne soðne gelyfe,
hælendne cyning, hider asendne
of ðam uplican engla rice,
þone Gabriel, godes ærendraca,
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sanctan Marian sylfre gebodode.
Ides unmæne, heo þæt ærende
onfeng freolice, and ðe fæder sylfne
under breostcofan bearn acende.
Næs ðær gefremmed firen æt giftum,
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ac þær halig gast handgyft sealde,
þære fæmnan bosm fylde mid blisse,
and heo cuðlice cende swa mærne
eorðbuendum engla scyppend,
se to frofre gewearð foldbuendum,
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and ymbe Bethleem bodedan englas
þæt acenned wæs Crist on eorðan.
Passus sub Pontio Pilato.
ða se pontisca Pilatus weold
under Romwarum rices and doma,
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þa se deora frea deað þrowade,
on gealgan stah, gumena drihten,
þone geomormod Iosep byrigde,
and he of helle huðe gefette,
of þam suslhofe, sawla manega,
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het ða uplicne eþel secan.
Tertia die resurrexit a mortuis.
þæs þy ðriddan dæge þeoda wealdend
aras, rices frea, recene of moldan,
and he XL daga folgeras sine
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runum arette, and ða his rice began,
þone uplican eðel secan,
cwæð þæt he nolde nænne forlætan
þe him forð ofer þæt fylian wolde
and mid fæstum sefan freode gelæstan.
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Credo in spiritum sanctum.
Ic haligne gast hihte beluce,
emne swa ecne swa is aðor gecweden,
fæder oððe freobearn, folca gereordum.
Ne synd þæt þreo godas, þriwa genemned,
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ac is an god, se ðe ealle hafað
þa þry naman þinga gerynum,
soð and sigefæst ofer side gesceaft,
wereda wuldorgyfa, wlanc and ece.
Sanctum ecclesiam catholicam.
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Eac ic gelyfe þæt syn leofe gode
þe þurh ænne geþanc ealdor heriað,
heofona heahcyning her for life,
Sanctorum communionem.
and ic gemænscipe mærne getreowe
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þinra haligra her for life.
Remissionem peccatorum.
Lisse ic gelyfe leahtra gehwylces,
Carnis resurrectionem.
and ic þone ærest ealra getreowe,
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flæsces on foldan on þa forhtan tid,
Et uitam eternam.
þær ðu ece lif eallum dælest,
swa her manna gehwylc metode gecwemað.