#510: Word of God, Come Down on Earth
Jan. 7th, 2020 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsLots of dense allusions, which makes sense--Jesus is the Word, but there's also the Biblical word which points to Jesus, etc. "faith and hope and love" makes it in as a phrase, but flows well and doesn't feel stock-phrasey. "Word that came from heaven to die" is nice and stark. And then the last verse is sort of about the Spirit as God's Word, which makes you want to read 1 and 2 as about God the Creator and Jesus respectively...but they're all fairly interwoven.
More pertinently, I don't think it's one verse for each person of the Trinity, because I think there's at least one other verse that got cut (for political correctness reasons or otherwise). "Word that caused blind eyes to see/Speak and heal our mortal blindness." "Mortal blindness" is a great turn of phrase (for one, you can kind of imagine dropping the "t" and it still makes sense), but maybe they wanted to avoid disability as a metaphor for ethical flaws.
More pertinently, I don't think it's one verse for each person of the Trinity, because I think there's at least one other verse that got cut (for political correctness reasons or otherwise). "Word that caused blind eyes to see/Speak and heal our mortal blindness." "Mortal blindness" is a great turn of phrase (for one, you can kind of imagine dropping the "t" and it still makes sense), but maybe they wanted to avoid disability as a metaphor for ethical flaws.
