Thou art the everlasting Word
Thou art the everlasting Word. Josiah Conder* (1789-1855).
From Conder’s Congregational Hymn Book (1836), in six verses, the last two lines of each verse acting as a refrain (splicing together Revelation 5: 12 and Philippians 2: 10):
Worthy, O Lamb of God, art Thou,That every knee to Thee should bow.
It is a compressed statement of the great mystery of the Incarnation found in John 1:14, and put forward in economical and straightforward poetry:
In Thee most perfectly expressed The Father’s glories shine;Of the full Deity possessed, Eternally Divine.
The hymn is found in Baptist and Congregationalist/URC books, and in some others, often abbreviated to five verses (BHB) or four (RS). The...
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