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#435: Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending
Mar. 22nd, 2019 11:37 pmWhen it says "thousand thousand saints," is that referring to a specific scene in the Bible?
I don't think so, I think the apocalyptic writers were more into base 12 stuff.
Is that an allusion to the Lord's Prayer in the last verse?
I think so! "take the pow'r and glory, claim the kingdom" sounds like it, although I hadn't caught that before. (Also a TS Eliot allusion, but that would be anachronistic since this was written in the 1700s.)
Are the "saints" of the first verse the same as the ones in the second?
I'm not sure? The time frame is kind of mixed up, which I guess is to be expected if you're singing about the future coming of Jesus in the present tense.
We don't sing this one a lot, but it's kind of catchy in a staid way.
I don't think so, I think the apocalyptic writers were more into base 12 stuff.
Is that an allusion to the Lord's Prayer in the last verse?
I think so! "take the pow'r and glory, claim the kingdom" sounds like it, although I hadn't caught that before. (Also a TS Eliot allusion, but that would be anachronistic since this was written in the 1700s.)
Are the "saints" of the first verse the same as the ones in the second?
I'm not sure? The time frame is kind of mixed up, which I guess is to be expected if you're singing about the future coming of Jesus in the present tense.
We don't sing this one a lot, but it's kind of catchy in a staid way.
