Angels round the throne are praising

First published in Caleb Evans and John Ash's Bristol Baptist Collection in 1769 (Number 106) under the title "The Resurrection and Ascension," this celebrated Easter and Ascension hymn was written by Thomas Scott in six stanzas of four lines, with each stanza followed by a refrain of "Hallelujah." The signature attached to the hymn evolved through several editions of the collection: it was initially signed "G." (suggesting Thomas Gibbons), then "U." for unknown in the second edition, before being correctly assigned as "Dr. S." and "Dr. Sc--tt" in subsequent printings. Through John Rippon's Selection of Hymns in 1787, the text entered widespread congregational use across both Great Britain and America. In 1773, Scott republished the hymn in his Lyric Poems with significant revisions, introducing a new opening verse beginning "Trembling earth gave awful sign." Further complexity arose in September 1775 when Dr. Thomas Gibbons published an expanded nine-stanza variation in the Gospel Magazine, later incorporating it into his 1784 Hymns Adapted to Divine Worship as an enlarged adaptation of the original, creating long-standing historical confusion surrounding its primary authorship. The hymn was also translated into Latin verse by Richard Bingham in 1871.