Prudentius Clemens Aurelius lived between 348 and 410 AD. A lawyer by training he was for many years employed in the civil service of Spain. He quit that aspect of his life, determined in a new way to commit himself to becoming a devoted servant of Christ. Writing in Latin, he published many of his hymns and poetry.

He is now obscure and unknown but some of his hymns are still sung. They speak of the Eternal and of the Eternal One, Who is for believers the same unchanging Friend.

Of the Father’s love begotten,
Ere the worlds began to be,
He is Alpha and Omega,
He the Source, the Ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And the future years shall see,
Evermore and evermore!