Tres sunt qui testimonium dant

General information

Motet for Trinity Sunday.
Source of text: 1 John 5:7

Notes on selected settings

• Richard Dering SB soli & bc ("sanctus … gloria ejus.")
• Asprilio Pacelli SSAATTBB (2nd part as below)
• Franz Schubert SATB & orchestra (through "hi tres unum sunt.")
• Tomás Luis de Victoria SATB (2nd part as below)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Gregor Aichinger — Tres sunt qui testimonium dant  Latin TTB
• Richard Dering — Tres sunt qui testimonium  Latin SB
• Asprilio Pacelli — Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant  Latin SATB.SATB

Text and translations

Latin text Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo: Pater, Verbum et Spiritus Sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt. (1 John 5:7) continuation in Pacelli: Unus Deus, una fides, unum baptisma, Unus Deus et pater omnium, qui est super omnes et super omnia, et in omnibus nobis, (Ephesians 4:5-6) Qui est benedictus in saecula saeculorum. Amen. continuation used by Victoria: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus.

English translation There are three who give testimony in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (Rheims NT, 1582) One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all, And who is blessed for ever and ever. Amen. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory.