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The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31:
The song's origins and age are uncertain: however, a counting song with similar lyrics, but without the 'Green grow the rushes' chorus, was sung by English children in the first half of the 19th century. [2] [i] By 1868 several variant and somewhat garbled versions were being sung by street children as Christmas carols. [2]
The lyrics are based on Ephesians 1:18, a verse from the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians. [1] The song was originally recorded by Sonicflood for their debut album Sonicflood in 1999. [ 2 ] The following year Paul Baloche released his own recording on his album Open the Eyes of My Heart .
The Hymn of the Pearl (also Hymn of the Soul, Hymn of the Robe of Glory or Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle) is a passage of the apocryphal Acts of Thomas. In that work, originally written in Syriac, the Apostle Thomas sings the hymn while praying for himself and fellow prisoners. Some scholars believe the hymn predates the Acts, as it only ...
The song's origins are uncertain; however, its nearest known relative is the English folk song "The Twelve Apostles." [2] Both songs are listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as #133. Parallel features in the two songs' cumulative structure and lyrics (cumulating to 12 loosely biblical references) make this connection apparent.
The popular song reflects Crosby's walk of faith, as expressed by the apostle Paul in Philippians "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" ( Philippians 1:21 ). Because of Crosby's lyrics, the tune is now called "Blessed Assurance".
"It Is Well With My Soul", also known as "When Peace, Like A River", is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss.First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2 by Ira Sankey and Bliss (1876), it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.
The song "Belfast Brigade" using alternate lyrics is sung by the Lucky4 in support of the Irish Republican Army. The song "Up Went Nelson", celebrating the destruction of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, is sung to this tune. The Discordian Handbook Principia Discordia has a version of the song called Battle Hymn of the Eristocracy. [47]