#853: When Morning Gilds the Skies

[lutheranhymns]

I think I've mentioned this before but sometimes you just come across a word or phrase that sounds very secular/out-of-context in a hymnal. Like, it should be a puzzle to make a list where half are words from a hymn, half are not, and you have to find them. This time it's "curfew." As in, whether it's the morning, or the evening, we're praising Jesus. But that just seems like a strange translation.

Then on the other hand, you find words that are pretty much only used in a liturgical context, like "antiphon" to rhyme with "known."