Religion

Revelation 2:17: Eve hath not seen, ear hath not heard

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 13 (1872)

Religion

Eve hath not seen, ear hath not heard
What Christ hath for His saints prepared,
Who conquer through their Saviour's might,
Who sink into perfection's height,
And trample death beneath their feet,
And gladly die their Lord to meet.

They on the hidden Manna feed,
The heavenly, true, angelic Bread,
Who gain'd on earth a partial taste
Of bliss too exquisite to last,
Obtain His fullest joy above,
And all the sweetness of His love.
Christ shall on them a name bestow
Which no embodied saint can know,
A new inexplicable name,
With God essentially the same!

And what it is they then conceive,
When Christ doth all His fulness give.

Dost Thou desire to know and see
What thy mysterious name shall be?
Contending for thy heavenly home,
Thy latest foe, in death o'ercome;
Till then thou searchest out in vain
What only conquest can explain.

But when the Lord hath closed thine eyes,
And open'd them in paradise,
Receiving thy new name unknown,
Thou read'st it wrote on the white stone,
Wrote on thy pure humanity
God THREE IN ONE AND ONE IN THREE.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Revelation 2:17: Eve hath not seen, ear hath not heard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7140/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Revelation 2:17: Eve hath not seen, ear hath not heard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7140/.

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