O Saviour, Who for man hast trod

O Saviour, Who for man hast trod. Charles Coffin* (1676-1749), translated by John Chandler* (1806-1876), altered by Robert Campbell* (1814-1868). The Latin hymn, ‘Opus peregisti tuum’, was printed in the Paris Breviary of 1736 and in Hymni Sacri Auctore Carolo Coffin (also 1736), for Ascension-tide. The translation was made by Chandler for his Hymns of the Primitive Church (1837), which also printed the Latin text as ‘Hymnus 72’, beginning Opus peregisti tuum, Te, Christe victorem necis, Aeterna, quam reliqueras Coeli reposcit gloria. Chandler’s translation (in which the first line is closer to the Latin than some subsequent versions) was substantially altered in the following years, first...