#387: O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing
Feb. 9th, 2021 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThis is a different text for #386--the first verse (and the leading/trailing alleluias, of course) is the same, but then it expands on Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Jesus. Which makes sense--for a song about "sons and daughters," it's nice to go into details about the women's story! (Mary gets lumped in with some others as "the faithful women" in the other version.)
This version is also originally in English rather than a translation, so we get some cool rhymes with "anguish-bent"/"sent" (as an apostle--that a woman or group of women are always the first to see the tomb/Jesus is pretty significant in the Gospels that normally restrict "apostle" to the group of twelve men), and "gloom"/"tomb"/"whom." That's one way to keep "whom" alive...(or resurrect it, I guess, in this case).
This version is also originally in English rather than a translation, so we get some cool rhymes with "anguish-bent"/"sent" (as an apostle--that a woman or group of women are always the first to see the tomb/Jesus is pretty significant in the Gospels that normally restrict "apostle" to the group of twelve men), and "gloom"/"tomb"/"whom." That's one way to keep "whom" alive...(or resurrect it, I guess, in this case).
