The first phrase:
In the fifth verse, the text here is "The veil is torn, our Priest we see." "Veil" is sung with a melisma (F# G). Because it's sung with an extra syllable, it's musically "torn."
The second phrase:
In the first verse, the text here is "For us unholy and forlorn." "Forlorn" is sung with a descending melisma (F# F# E), musically giving a sense of this misery.
In the fourth verse, the text is "Of Him who hung upon the tree." The musical phrase generally descends, so with this line, there's almost a sense of Jesus' being suspended upon the cross.
In the fifth verse, the text is "As at the rail on bended knee." Here, the descent musically illustrates the "bended knee." "Bended" is even sung with a descending melisma (A G F#), which furthers this image.
In the seventh verse, the text is "Our voices join the endless hymn." "Endless" is sung with a melisma (A G F#). Since the word is stretched out, there's something of a sense of this long period of time.
The fourth phrase:
In the first verse, the text here is "Anointed from eternity," and in the fifth verse, it's "The bread of immortality." Both "eternity" and "immortality" are sung with melismas (D D E F# E D for "eternity" and E D D E F# E D for "immortality"). As with "endless" above, that these words are stretched out gives something of a sense of the long periods of time they describe.
