The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6453

6453. From Out The Tomb The Savior Comes

1 From out the tomb the Savior comes,
The first of all the dead;
From out the tomb the Savior comes,
To be our living head.

2 What is the stone His foes have placed
To make secure the grave?
And what the great Sanhedrin seal
The priests so freely gave?

3 He must wake, He must arise,
For have not prophets said,
God’s Holy One shall never share
Corruption with the dead?

4 Now see, in shimmering light, He leaves
The dead, no more to die.
Conqueror of sin, and death and hell,
He re-ascends the sky.

Text Information

• First Line: From out the tomb the Savior comes
• Title: From Out The Tomb The Savior Comes
• Author: Benjamin T. Tanner
• Language: English
• Source: African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book Philadelphia: African Methodist Episcopal Book Concern, 1898)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: METROPOLITAN
• Composer: John Turner Layton, Sr. (1898)
• Meter: CM
• Key: A♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain