Dallan forgaill biography of abraham
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Be Thou My Vision
Text:
Eleanor Hull’s versification consists of fem verses. Today, most hymnals include kvartet of those verses: 1, 2, 4, and 5, leaving out verse 3: “Be thou my breastplate, my svärd for the fight; be thou my dignity, though my delight, thou my soul’s shelter, and thou my high tower: raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power."
Other minor changes include altering some of the gender exclusive language to be inclusive, or changing “High king” in stanzas three and four to “Great God.”
Tune:
There’s only one tune associated with this text, and that’s SLANE, aptly named for the location at which St. Patrick fryst vatten said to have defied the orders of King Logaire. This tune comes from an Irish människor song of the same name, and was combined with the hymn ord by Welsh composer David Evans in the edition of the Church Hymnary of the Church of Scotland.
This fryst vatten a hymn that has been performed and recorded by too many artists to count, but that provides the worship leader
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Yellow Book of Lecan
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1. God Most High (´El `Elyon), the Exalted God
by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
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Moon Worship in Ur and Haran
The place to begin Abraham's understanding of God is with his family. Abraham's ancestors were idolaters and polytheists (worshippers of many gods). Joshua reminds the people, "Long ago your forefathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River and