3. Of the Father’s Love Begotten (DIVINUM MYSTERIUM), #415: Worship III had four stanzas, Worship IV has five (perhaps restoring one of the original stanzas?). For the last phrase, “Evermore and evermore,” an alternate Latin translation is included.
That is awesome, and may in and of itself cause me to purchase a copy.
Were the number of Advent hymns discussed in the meetings of the committee putting the hymnal together?
Bring it on.
Of course, there's no connection between a bride and 666, is there?!Hymn 666 in The Hymnal 1982 is "Out of the depths I call," a metrical paraphrase of Psalm 130. Tune is St. Bride by Samuel Howard.
I should think giving in to superstition is a trifle... superstitious.
Heath, wouldn't the very elimination of the number 666 be an indication that the one doing the elimination is buying into this fundamentalistic clap trap?
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