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#708: Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love
Jul. 14th, 2019 10:22 pmWhat is the allusion here?
To the Maundy Thursday story (at least in John) where Jesus washes his disciples' feet. This is considered gross and taboo but Jesus is like "no, I gotta do it, and maybe this will give you a hint as to how to treat others."
Any others?
It's vague, but "neighbors are...varied in color and race" could be a reference to the Good Samaritan (which we read today so it was on my mind). Jesus makes the point of "sometimes the neighbor you're supposed to love is someone from a hated outgroup, deal."
Have the lyrics changed since the last edition?
Yeah. The first verse now reads "master who acts as a slave for them" instead of "pours out himself." I suspect this is a revert to the original in an effort to be more on-point and the previous version I knew was an adaptation dismissed as too wishy-washy?
To the Maundy Thursday story (at least in John) where Jesus washes his disciples' feet. This is considered gross and taboo but Jesus is like "no, I gotta do it, and maybe this will give you a hint as to how to treat others."
Any others?
It's vague, but "neighbors are...varied in color and race" could be a reference to the Good Samaritan (which we read today so it was on my mind). Jesus makes the point of "sometimes the neighbor you're supposed to love is someone from a hated outgroup, deal."
Have the lyrics changed since the last edition?
Yeah. The first verse now reads "master who acts as a slave for them" instead of "pours out himself." I suspect this is a revert to the original in an effort to be more on-point and the previous version I knew was an adaptation dismissed as too wishy-washy?
