CPWI Hymnal ‎#457

457. O love, how deep! How broad! How high!

1 O love, how deep! How broad! How high!
It fills the heart with ecstasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake.

2 He sent no angel to our race
of higher or of lower place,
but wore the robe of human frame
himself, and to this lost world came.

3 For us he was baptized, and bore
his holy fast and hungered sore;
for us temptations sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.

4 For us he prayed, for us he taught,
for us his daily works he wrought,
by words, and signs, and actions, thus
still seeking not himself but us.

5 For us to wicked men betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death;
for us at length gave up his breath.

6 For us he rose from death again,
for us he went on high to reign,
for us he sent his Spirit here
to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.

7 To him whose boundless love has won
salvation for us through his Son,
to God the Father, glory be
both now and through eternity.

Text Information

• First Line: O love, how deep! How broad! How high!
• Latin Title: Apparuit benignituas
• Author: Thomas à Kempis, c1390-1471
• Translator: Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885
• Meter: L.M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2010
• Topic: General Hymns: Faith, Hope and Love
• Source: In the form of a cento beginning "O Amor, quem ecxtaticus", 15th century

Tune Information

• Name: EISENACH
• Composer: Johann Hermann Schein, 1586-1630 (1628)
• Meter: L.M.
• Key: E♭ Major