Text: | O love how deep, how broad, how high! |
Author: | Thomas à Kempis, 1379-1471 |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb, 1819-85 |
Tune: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Composer: | Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621 |
Harmonizer: | George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1848-1934 |
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 hands 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 | |
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First Line: | O love how deep, how broad, how high! |
Translator: | Benjamin Webb, 1819-85 (alt.) |
Author: | Thomas à Kempis, 1379-1471 |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | God's Love to Us; Jesus Christ: Baptism; Jesus Christ: Earthly life(7 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Composer: | Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621 |
Harmonizer: | George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1848-1934 |
Meter: | 88.88 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | As adapted from 'Piae Cantiones', 1582 |