Son of the Lord most high

Son of the Lord most high. George Wallace Briggs* (1875-1959). First published in Briggs’s Songs of Faith (1945), his selection of his own work, in the section on ‘Jesus Christ our Lord’. It was entitled ‘His Ministry’. It was written to fit the tune RHOSYMEDRE (although it is sometimes set to Henry Lawes*’ LAWES’ PSALM XLVII, as in CP and RS, and other books). The hymn was printed with alterations in CP and subsequently in 100HfT and thus in A&MNS (though not in A&MCP). CP altered stanza 1 line 6 from ‘and nurtured in poor Galilee’ to ‘and humbly bred in Galilee’, presumably with the author’s permission (his own Hymns of the Faith, 1957, uses the altered version). Similarly, CP...