818--Christ is the mystery of God;

Christ is the mystery of God;

818

	1.	Christ is the mystery of God;
		God is invisible, unshown,
		His image man hath never seen,
		But Christ the Son hath man Him
		known.
	2.	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.
	3.	Image of God invisible,
		Effulgence of God's glory fair;
		God's fulness ever dwells in Him,
		God's testimony He doth bear.
	4.	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.
	5.	The Church is Christ's expression full,
		In her Christ dwelleth bodily;
		She is His duplication true,
		And man in her Himself may see.
	6.	The Church the image has of Christ,
		She is His increase and Hie spread;
		Christ's very self is found in her,
		The Body, she, to Christ the Head.
	7.	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.