"Son of God, Eternal Savior"

A couple weeks ago, Concordia Publishing House posted a verse from "Son of God, Eternal Savior" on Instagram:

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(The hymn is actually LSB #842.)

In my head, I sang this verse to the tune ("In Babilone"), and I noticed that the words "ever plead" in the line "For Your own will ever plead" are sung with melismas (A G F# | E D), giving a sense of duration.  Here's the musical phrase:

(A couple years ago, I wrote about a melisma in the title line.)

"Son of God, Eternal Savior"

Earlier this year, "Son of God, Eternal Savior" was one of the hymns I sang in church, and I noticed a small feature in the first line.  The hymn is sung to the tune "In Babilone."  Here's the first musical phrase:

The text here in the first verse (repeated as the first line in the fourth verse) is "Son of God, eternal Savior."  The "eternal" is sung with a melisma (G A G A).  Since the word is spread across more syllables than normal, there's something of a sense of the span of that "eternal."