In illo tempore, loquente Jesu (Nicolas Gombert)
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Title: In illo tempore, loquente Jesu
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
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Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1538 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Ott and Formschneider), Volume 2, no. 6
2nd published: 1539 in Motetti del frutto a sei voci (Gardano), no. 1
3rd published: 1558 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Berg and Neuber), Volume 1, no. 22
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Original text and translations
Latin text
In illo tempore:
loquente Jesu ad turbas,
extollens vocem quaedam mulier de turba dixit:
Beatus venter, qui te portavit,
et ubera, quae suxisti.
At ille dixit: Quinimo beati,
qui audiunt verbum Dei, et custodiunt illud.
English translation
At that time:
while Jesus was speaking to the crowds,
a certain woman from the crowd, raising her voice said:
Blessed is the womb that bore thee
and the breasts that thou hast sucked.
But he said: Nay, rather, blessed
are those who hear the word of God and keep it.