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#826: Thine the Amen
Feb. 9th, 2020 10:14 pm(I made a slight tweak to "Holy Holy Holy Holy" since we sang it again and I'd misremembered it from last time!)
But onto this one.
There are a couple neat things going on here. "All the earth on bended knee" is, in this context, about the end of time/God's kingdom as depicted in Revelation, with the whole Earth bowing to God--but it can also be viewed as all creation praying or repenting in this life, and I think it was taken that way as a theme for one of my home church's Advent devotionals many years ago. The composer also seems to be averse to punctuation.
But! There's a story here.
After Jaroslav Vajda, punctuation-hater, wrote #460, which is about "now" this, "now" that, all the images/allusions that are coming together at Communion, he apparently dared his colleague Herbert Brokering "you should write one, except make it about the end of time and it can be 'then' this, 'then' that." So Brokering went away and came back with a first draft of this. Vajda went "...that's actually good, now change half of those 'then's to 'thine's and we can get it published." So this beautiful imagery of God's kingdom/all the wonder we can ascribe to God...is the product of Lutheran publishing houses oneupmanship. I love it.
But onto this one.
There are a couple neat things going on here. "All the earth on bended knee" is, in this context, about the end of time/God's kingdom as depicted in Revelation, with the whole Earth bowing to God--but it can also be viewed as all creation praying or repenting in this life, and I think it was taken that way as a theme for one of my home church's Advent devotionals many years ago. The composer also seems to be averse to punctuation.
But! There's a story here.
After Jaroslav Vajda, punctuation-hater, wrote #460, which is about "now" this, "now" that, all the images/allusions that are coming together at Communion, he apparently dared his colleague Herbert Brokering "you should write one, except make it about the end of time and it can be 'then' this, 'then' that." So Brokering went away and came back with a first draft of this. Vajda went "...that's actually good, now change half of those 'then's to 'thine's and we can get it published." So this beautiful imagery of God's kingdom/all the wonder we can ascribe to God...is the product of Lutheran publishing houses oneupmanship. I love it.
