#810: O Jesus, I Have Promised
Sep. 11th, 2020 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsWe've seen this melody before but this one has a different harmonization; this version has a fairly boring alto part, but both of them have huge tenor/bass gaps (in slightly different places)!
Text-wise, we get Jesus as Guardian in caps, and an interesting swerve from plural to singular in the last verse: "you have promised to all who follow you, that where you are...your servant shall be." I would expect "servants" both to parallel with "all" and because "community rather than individual salvation" seems to be a popular theology, but that doesn't really fit with the "help me to lead my life well" themes of the rest of the song.
Text-wise, we get Jesus as Guardian in caps, and an interesting swerve from plural to singular in the last verse: "you have promised to all who follow you, that where you are...your servant shall be." I would expect "servants" both to parallel with "all" and because "community rather than individual salvation" seems to be a popular theology, but that doesn't really fit with the "help me to lead my life well" themes of the rest of the song.
