Defective hymns
Apr. 14th, 2011 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
necturusI've been noticing a lot of flaws in hymns lately. Some are minor annoyances, like trying to rhyme "prove" with "love". But today we were practicing an Easter anthem containing the line:
"Easter triumph, Easter joy; this alone can sin destroy."
If there is such a thing as sin, surely it can destroy a lot of other things too.
"Easter triumph, Easter joy; this alone can sin destroy."
If there is such a thing as sin, surely it can destroy a lot of other things too.
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Date: 2011-04-15 04:26 am (UTC)1) Prove and Love are what we in poetry call "half-rhymes" and they're intentional and not flaws.
2) It means "this alone can destroy sin", and of course, they mean that Jesus's resurrection was the only thing that could destroy sin.