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Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]
Roman mosaic of Orpheus, the mythical poet to whom the Orphic Hymns were attributed, from Palermo, 2nd century AD [32]. The collection's attribution to the mythical poet Orpheus is found in its title, "Orpheus to Musaeus", [33] which is the heading of the proem (an address from the poet to the legendary author Musaeus of Athens, which precedes the rest of the collection); [34] this address to ...
The following lists contains all the hymns composed by Sankey that are found in the "1200" edition of Sacred Songs and Solos. Many of these hymns are also found in the six-volume collection, Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs, which Sankey edited with Philip Bliss and others, which was published in the United States between 1876 and 1891. [1]
The 17 hymns of the Gathas consist of 238 stanzas, of about 1300 lines or 6000 words in total. They were later incorporated into the 72-chapter Yasna (chapter: ha or had , from the Avestan ha'iti , 'cut'), that in turn is the primary liturgical collection of texts within the greater compendium of the Avesta .
Psalm 4 is the fourth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English of the King James Version: "Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness". In Latin, it is known as "Cum invocarem". [1] The psalm is traditionally attributed to David, but his authorship is not accepted by modern scholars
In addition to being consistently popular throughout Western Christendom in Protestant hymnbooks, it is now a suggested hymn for Catholic Masses in the U.S., [17] and appears in the Catholic Book of Worship published by the Canadian Catholic Conference in 1972. [18]
Psalm 103 is the 103rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Bless the L ORD, O my soul". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In Latin, it is known as "Benedic anima mea Domino". [1] The psalm is a hymn psalm. [2]
Title page of the copy of the Bay Psalm Book held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library a page of the Bay Psalm Book in the Houghton Library. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly called the Bay Psalm Book, is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay.