#877: Praise the Almighty!
May. 27th, 2021 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsNot familiar with this one at all, I'm guessing it might have been in the category of "weird German dances without obvious meter, repurposed to 1600s/1700s hymns," but maybe it first showed up with this song? The composer's name is Johann D. Herrnschmidt, which is pretty neat, lots of consonants, and translation by committee.
I'm not sure how to parse the sentence "All that has being, to praise God solely, with happy heart its amen sings!" I get that "solely" is a forced rhyme with "holy," but whose heart is happy? "All"? Should it be a plural or something?
The image of a grave that "engulfs its prey" is pretty intense. And the line about how "earthborn" rulers won't help against death isn't a new idea, it's from Psalms, but I think it can be interpreted differently in new contexts that have to do with ideologies, not just individual leaders. But if your worldview has rituals and metaphysics and sin and flagellation, but no forgiveness or resurrection...does it really stack up?
I'm not sure how to parse the sentence "All that has being, to praise God solely, with happy heart its amen sings!" I get that "solely" is a forced rhyme with "holy," but whose heart is happy? "All"? Should it be a plural or something?
The image of a grave that "engulfs its prey" is pretty intense. And the line about how "earthborn" rulers won't help against death isn't a new idea, it's from Psalms, but I think it can be interpreted differently in new contexts that have to do with ideologies, not just individual leaders. But if your worldview has rituals and metaphysics and sin and flagellation, but no forgiveness or resurrection...does it really stack up?
