O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
Words and music by English · tr. Benjamin Webb · 1852
Key of E · 140 BPM · 3/4 · Angels,Atonement,Baptism · Eph 3:14-21
Verse 1
O love, how deep, how broad, how high, How passing
thought and fantasy, That God, the Son of
God, should take Our mortal form for mortals' sake!
Verse 2
He sent no angel to our race Of higher
or of lower place, But wore the robe of
human frame And He Himself, to this world came.
Verse 3
Nor willed He only to appear; His pleasure
was to tarry here; And God and Man with
man would be The space of thirty years and three.
Verse 4
For us baptized, for us He bore His holy
fast and hungered sore, For us temptations
sharp He knew; For us the tempter overthrew.
Verse 5
For us He prayed; for us He taught; For us His
daily works He wrought; By words and signs and
actions thus Still seeking not Himself, but us.
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