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