Christ is the mystery of God;

Christ is the mystery of God; God is invisible, unshown, His image man hath never seen, But Christ the Son hath made Him known.

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.

Image of God invisible, Effulgence of God's glory fair; God's fulness ever dwells in Him, God's testimony He doth bear.

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.

The Church is Christ's expression full, In her Christ dwelleth bodily; She is His duplication true, And man in her Himself may see.

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.

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.