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I've been thinking..... the RN is SO over the top.....
foreign factions & countries & beheading... are these REALLY things that must point to the innocence of such nice people... a "good Christian family" family as the Ramseys would appear to be?
Why on earth would such a wonderful family even be aware of such dark & violent things? Would these type of things be in their minds at all... especially in such a happy season?
So then I thought.... John... John the Baptist. (Beheaded!)
Hmmmmm.
It's Christmas time & we know THAT holiday was important enough for Patsy to insist that JB's headstone show she died a day earlier than she actually did....
Then I started thinking of Christmas hymns....
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/c/ocomocom.htm
Words: Combined from various antiphons by an unknown author, possibly in the 12th Cen*tury (Veni, veni Emanuel); translated from Latin to English by , Mediaeval Hymns, 1851. Neales original translation began, Draw nigh, draw nigh, Emmanuel.
Music: Veni Emmanuel, from a 15th Century processional of French Franciscan nuns (the setting for the funeral hymn Libera me); arranged by in the Hymnal Noted, Part II (London: 1856).
The lyrics echo a number of prophetic themes. The title comes from the well known Isaiah 7:14: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Immanuel is Hebrew for God with us.
The Rod of Jesse refers to Isaiah 11:1: There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse; Jesse was the father of David, second king of Israel.
Day-Spring comes from Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, in Luke 1:78: The day*spring from on high has visited us.
Thou Key of David is in Isaiah 22:22: The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder, which in turn refers to Isaiah 9:6 The government shall be upon His shoulder.
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(Lyrics)
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Refrain
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
Who orderest all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.
Refrain
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satans tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory over the grave.
Refrain
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And deaths dark shadows put to flight.
Refrain
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Refrain
O come, O come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinais height
In ancient times once gave the law
In cloud and majesty and awe.
Refrain
O come, Thou Root of Jesses tree,
An ensign of Thy people be;
Before Thee rulers silent fall;
All peoples on Thy mercy call.
Refrain
O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid Thou our sad divisions cease,
And be Thyself our King of Peace.
Refrain
foreign factions & countries & beheading... are these REALLY things that must point to the innocence of such nice people... a "good Christian family" family as the Ramseys would appear to be?
Why on earth would such a wonderful family even be aware of such dark & violent things? Would these type of things be in their minds at all... especially in such a happy season?
So then I thought.... John... John the Baptist. (Beheaded!)
Hmmmmm.
It's Christmas time & we know THAT holiday was important enough for Patsy to insist that JB's headstone show she died a day earlier than she actually did....
Then I started thinking of Christmas hymns....
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/c/ocomocom.htm
Words: Combined from various antiphons by an unknown author, possibly in the 12th Cen*tury (Veni, veni Emanuel); translated from Latin to English by , Mediaeval Hymns, 1851. Neales original translation began, Draw nigh, draw nigh, Emmanuel.
Music: Veni Emmanuel, from a 15th Century processional of French Franciscan nuns (the setting for the funeral hymn Libera me); arranged by in the Hymnal Noted, Part II (London: 1856).
The lyrics echo a number of prophetic themes. The title comes from the well known Isaiah 7:14: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Immanuel is Hebrew for God with us.
The Rod of Jesse refers to Isaiah 11:1: There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse; Jesse was the father of David, second king of Israel.
Day-Spring comes from Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, in Luke 1:78: The day*spring from on high has visited us.
Thou Key of David is in Isaiah 22:22: The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder, which in turn refers to Isaiah 9:6 The government shall be upon His shoulder.
-----
(Lyrics)
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Refrain
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
Who orderest all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.
Refrain
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satans tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory over the grave.
Refrain
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And deaths dark shadows put to flight.
Refrain
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Refrain
O come, O come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinais height
In ancient times once gave the law
In cloud and majesty and awe.
Refrain
O come, Thou Root of Jesses tree,
An ensign of Thy people be;
Before Thee rulers silent fall;
All peoples on Thy mercy call.
Refrain
O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid Thou our sad divisions cease,
And be Thyself our King of Peace.
Refrain
