O Thou Whose all-redeeming might

O Thou Whose all-redeeming might.  Latin, 8th or 9th century, translated by Richard Meux Benson* (1824-1915). This translation of the anonymous Latin hymn ‘Iesu Redemptor omnium’* was included in the First Edition of A&M (1861), in the section ‘Martyrs, &c.’ It was preceded by a quotation from 1 Timothy 3: 1: ‘If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work.’ In subsequent editions of A&M it is headed ‘For a Bishop’. It was slightly altered in A&M (1904), but restored in A&MS , where it is described as being by ‘R.M. Benson and Compilers’, which suggests some alteration in 1861. In EH there is a different text, which presumably also had Benson’s...