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In the United States "Rock of Ages" is usually sung to the hymn tune Toplady by Thomas Hastings as revised by Lowell Mason. In the United Kingdom the hymn tune Redhead 76 is most common. This tune is also called Petra, after Peter being referred to as the Rock by Christ, by Richard Redhead. Both tunes circulate in the churches of both countries ...
1779. ( 1779) "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" is a Christian hymn . The hymn has been called the "National Anthem of Christendom ". [ 1] The lyrics, written by Edward Perronet, first appeared in the November, 1779 issue of the Gospel Magazine, which was edited by the author of "Rock of Ages", Augustus Toplady .
Published. 1837. ( 1837) " My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less " is a Christian hymn written by Edward Mote, a pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Horsham, West Sussex. Mote wrote around 100 hymns, this one, which he wrote in 1834, being the best known of his. The hymn "My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less" was published anonymously in several hymn ...
Song of Songs. The Song of Songs ( Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים, romanized: Shīr ha-Shīrīm ), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh. It is unique within the Hebrew Bible: it ...
She introduced liturgical words in the song, but changed the context so that the lyrics had dual meaning. [11] In addition to superficial pop lyrics about sexuality and religion on the surface, [ 11 ] "Like a Prayer" contained a secondary meaning beneath to provoke reaction from her listeners.
Meter. 8.7.8.7 D. Melody. "Austrian Hymn" by Franz Josef Haydn. " Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken ", also called " Zion, or the City of God ", [ 1] is an 18th-century English hymn written by John Newton, who also wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace". Shape note composer Alexander Johnson set it to his tune "Jefferson" in 1818, [ 2] and as such it ...
John Lissauer. " Hallelujah " is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, [ 1] the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ...
You may read it either as affirmatory, Something good can come out of Nazareth; to which the other says, Come and see: or you may read it as a question, implying doubt on Nathanael's part, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Come and see. Since either way of reading agrees equally with what follows, we must inquire the meaning of the passage.