Chapter 5Bogur.1.5
Strofa 5
The Victory of the Suffering Servant
The stanza reflects on the transition from Christ's earthly suffering to his glorious resurrection.
He who faithfully endured hardships had not yet fully slept through death when God himself rose from the dead.1
Read the original Latin
Jenże trudy cirpiał zawiernie, Jeszcze był nie prześpiał zaśmiernie, Aliż sam Bog zmartwychwstał.
Notes
- 1 ↩Middle Polish 'prześpiał zaśmiernie' is dense: literally something like 'slept through / finished sleeping unto death.' Rendered as 'slept all the way through death' to keep the idea that death's sleep was not completed or final. 'Aliż' is taken as temporal 'when/until,' not adversative 'but.'
Bogurodzica (Mother of God) companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing