Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Friday, May 5, 2023

"I Am Content! My Jesus Ever Lives"

Last week, I watched the Concordia University Wisconsin chapel service from 24 April.  The hymn was "I Am Content! My Jesus Ever Lives," and I noticed a small feature in it.  Near the beginning of the fourth verse, there's the line "Arising glorious evermore to be" (the sense is completed with the following line:  "With You, my living head").  It's sung to this phrase from the tune "Es ist genug":


"Arising" is sung to a group of ascending notes (F G A), so there's a musical sense of the word's meaning.