Two of the simplest
stanzas are as follows:—
Extra quam caper potest
mens humana
manet Filius in Patre,
rursus quem penes sit Pater
dignus, qui genitus est
Filius in Deum.
Felix quid potuit fide
res tantas penitus
credulus assequi,
ut incorporeo ex Deo
profectus fuerit
primogenitus Dei.
It is written in stanzas of six
lines in the ms.; the metre is the second
Asclepiad. Gamurrini, the discoverer, and Fechtrup (in
Wetzer-Welte’s Encyclopædia) regard it as the work of
Hilary, but the weight of opinion is against them.