Text:O Love, How Deep, How Broad
Author (attributed):Thomas à Kempis
Translator:Benjamin Webb
Tune:DEO GRACIAS

303. O Love, How Deep, How Broad

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

3 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.

4 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.

5 Eternal glory to our God
for love so deep, so high, so broad;
the Trinity whom we adore
forever and forevermore.

Text Information
First Line: O love, how deep, how broad, how high!
Title: O Love, How Deep, How Broad
Author (attributed): Thomas à Kempis (15th c.)
Translator: Benjamin Webb
Meter: LM
Publication Date: 2020
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Heritage: Before 1500; Incarnation; Jesus Christ: Baptism of (5 more...)
Source: trans. Benjamin Webb (England), The Hymnal Noted, 1851, alt.
Tune Information
Name: DEO GRACIAS
Meter: LM
Key: d minor
Source: English traditional, 15th c.



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