{"id":739,"date":"2011-04-20T23:19:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T03:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?page_id=739"},"modified":"2011-04-20T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T03:19:38","slug":"ah-holy-jesus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/ah-holy-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Holy Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hymn was written around 1630 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymntime.com\/tch\/bio\/h\/e\/e\/heerman_j.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Johann Heerman<\/a> and translated from German to English in 1899 by Robert Bridges.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great hymn of reflection for this season.\u00a0 I\u00a0 heard it recently for the first time at LaGrave Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended,<br \/>\nThat man to judge thee hath in hate pretended?<br \/>\nBy foes derided, by thine own rejected,<br \/>\nO most afflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee?<br \/>\nAlas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee.<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee:<br \/>\nI crucified thee.<\/p>\n<p>Lo, the good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;<br \/>\nThe slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered;<br \/>\nFor man&#8217;s atonement, while he nothing heedeth,<br \/>\nGod intercedeth.<\/p>\n<p>For me, kind Jesus, was thy incarnation,<br \/>\nThy mortal sorrow, and thy life&#8217;s oblation;<br \/>\nThy death of anguish and thy bitter passion,<br \/>\nFor my salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, kind Jesus, since I cannot pay Thee,<br \/>\nI do adore thee, and will ever pray thee,<br \/>\nThink on thy pity and thy love unswerving,<br \/>\nNot my deserving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hymn was written around 1630 by Johann Heerman and translated from German to English in 1899 by Robert Bridges.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great hymn of reflection for this season.\u00a0 I\u00a0 heard it recently for the first time at LaGrave Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended, That man&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/hymn-of-the-day\/ah-holy-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":692,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-739","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1MnZf-bV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739\/revisions\/743"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}