Jewish people, crucify Him!
Torture, scourge, and mock, and try Him!
In that precious Blood bedye Him:
That our race is ransomed by Him
Oh, how little deeming!
Theme of Israelite rejection,
Now, with joyful recollection,
Christians! hail the Resurrection;
With good deeds and hearts' affection
To the Victor teeming!
In Du Méril's copy, three lines precede this. But, as they disturb the metre where they stand, and are presently repeated in other words, I take them to be merely a various reading of the third, fourth, and fifth in the finished poem.
Thus Adam of S. Victor compares our Lord's Humanity to the shell; His Divinity to the kernel.
Christ the nut; the skin surrounding
Passion's bitterness expounding,
And the shell His human frame.
But in Flesh lay hid the Eternal
And His Sweetness: and the kernel
Rightly signifies the same.
