The Hymnal 1982 448
O love, how deep, how broad, how high
- Tune
- deus tuorum militum
- Author(s)
- Benjamin Webb, 1819-1885
- Composer(s)
- Basil Harwood, 1859-1949
- Meter
- 8.8.8.8
- Text Source(s)
- Latin, 15th cent.
- Tune Source(s)
- The English Hymnal, 1906, alt. (adapt.), harm. after Basil Harwood; Antiphoner, 1753
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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!
2 For us baptized, for us he bore his holy fast and hungered sore; for us temptations sharp he knew; for us the tempter overthrew.
3 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.
4 For us to wicked hands betrayed, scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed, he bore the shameful cross and death; for us gave up his dying breath.
5 For us he rose from death again; for us he went on high to reign; for us he sent his Spirit here to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.
6 All glory to our Lord and God for love so deep, so high, so broad; the Trinity whom we adore forever and forevermore.