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The context of the verse is the passage in John 1:1-18, Hymn to the Word dealing with the divinity, incarnation and authority of Jesus. Most Christian scholars agree that these words teach us, that all created things, visible, or invisible, were made by this eternal word, that is the Son of God. [1]
In the United States, the hymn is also frequently sung to the tune "Green Hill" by gospel composer George C. Stebbins. It was originally intended as a setting for the hymn's text and published in Gospel Hymns No. 3 (Chicago: Biglow & Main, 1878). This setting uses the final stanza as a refrain. [3]
A tall obelisk was built upon his grave with the words from the song and the following inscription: This monument was erected to the memory of Joseph M. Scriven, B.A., by lovers of his hymn, which is engraved hereon, and is his best memorial. Born at Seapatrick, Co. Down, Ireland, 10 Sept. 1819, emigrated to Canada 1844.
Hymns for Living, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (1985) Hymns of Faith and Freedom, Unitarian Christian Association (1991) Singing the Living Tradition, The Unitarian Universalist Association (1993) ISBN 1-55896-260-3. The YRUU Song Book, The Unitarian Universalist Association Youth Office (1997) [645]
Come and Praise [1] is a hymnal published by the BBC and widely used in collective worship in British schools. The hymnal was compiled by Geoffrey Marshall-Taylor with musical arrangements by Douglas Coombes, and includes well-known hymns such as “Oil in My Lamp”, “Kum Ba Yah” and “Water of Life” as well as Christmas carols and Easter hymns.
Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, dedicatee of "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn", BWV 1127 "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn" (Everything with God and nothing without him), BWV 1127, is Johann Sebastian Bach's October 1713 setting of a poem in 12 stanzas by Johann Anton Mylius, Superintendent of Buttstädt, a town in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar.
text chosen and translated from the Apocryphal Acts of St. John, next to the hymn Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis: Choral: 144: 38: 1919: Ode to Death: for mixed chorus and orchestra: words by Walt Whitman: Choral: 145: 1919: Short Festival Te Deum: for mixed chorus and orchestra: Choral: 148: 1921, 1918? "I Vow to Thee, My Country ...
Only-Begotten Son (Ancient Greek: Ὁ Μονογενὴς Υἱὸς, Russian: Единородный Сыне, Ukrainian: Єдинородний Сине, Old Armenian: Միածին Վորդի), sometimes called "Justinian's Hymn", the "Anthem of Orthodoxy" and/or the "Hymn of the Incarnation", is an ancient Christian hymn that was composed prior to the middle of the 6th century.