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#559: O Splendor of God's Glory Bright
Jan. 10th, 2020 10:08 pmThis is another case of "Jesus=proper nouns": we get him as the Splendor, the Spring, the Sun, and the Dawn. (The true Dawn, as opposed to the temporal earthly sunrise.)
The hymn tune name is "Splendor Paternae," which makes me think the original text is something about "Splendor of the Father," but it was changed to be less sexist and probably also to make the syllable count work.
"turn to the good each troubling care" is vague but intriguing. Do we just want God to take away our worries and replace them with motivations to do good? Or is there an image of using our existing human cares and concerns for good? Maybe I'm stretching (it could just be thrown in there for the rhyme scheme) but it caught my eye.
And we're done with this section too! There's a lot less about the morning than the evening, which says...something.
The hymn tune name is "Splendor Paternae," which makes me think the original text is something about "Splendor of the Father," but it was changed to be less sexist and probably also to make the syllable count work.
"turn to the good each troubling care" is vague but intriguing. Do we just want God to take away our worries and replace them with motivations to do good? Or is there an image of using our existing human cares and concerns for good? Maybe I'm stretching (it could just be thrown in there for the rhyme scheme) but it caught my eye.
And we're done with this section too! There's a lot less about the morning than the evening, which says...something.
