{"slug": "jesus-the-name-high-over-all", "title": "Jesus! the Name High over All", "first_line": "Jesus! the name high over all", "author": "charles-wesley", "author_date": "1749", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Jesus Christ, Name of", "Praise", "Evangelism"], "scripture": ["Philippians 2:9-11", "Acts 4:12", "John 1:29"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "methodist-hymnal-1905", "source_kind": "hand_encoded", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Charles Wesley (1707-1788), from Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749). Transcribed from The Methodist Hymnal (New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1905), hymn 222, printed page 162, which prints these six stanzas signed \"Charles Wesley\" under CORONATION C. M. by Oliver Holden. Public domain: author d. 1788, and the 1905 printing read for this record is itself pre-1931. Scans read: archive.org methodi00meth leaf 0174 and archive.org methodisthymnal01churgoog leaf 0181. Stanza 1 is transcribed from the interlinear underlay of that plate; stanzas 2-6 from the poetry block below it, read on both scans. Punctuation is the page's, including the absence of any mark after \"and see\" in stanza 4 line 1 (scan 1 shows a speck there; scan 2, which is cleaner, shows nothing).", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "jesus_the_name_high_over_all_in_hell_or", "total_instances": 307}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus! the name high o -- ver all, In hell, or earth, or sky; An -- gels and men be -- fore it fall, And dev -- ils fear and fly; An -- gels and men be -- fore it fall, And dev -- ils fear and fly.", "prose": ["Jesus! the name high over all,", "In hell, or earth, or sky;", "Angels and men before it fall,", "And devils fear and fly."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus! the name to sin -- ners dear, The name to sin -- ners giv'n; It scat -- ters all their guilt -- y fear; It turns their hell to heav'n. It scat -- ters all their guilt -- y fear; It turns their hell to heav'n.", "prose": ["Jesus! the name to sinners dear,", "The name to sinners giv'n;", "It scatters all their guilty fear;", "It turns their hell to heav'n."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus the pris -- 'ner's fet -- ters breaks, And bruis -- es Sa -- tan's head; Pow'r in -- to strength -- less souls he speaks, And life in -- to the dead. Pow'r in -- to strength -- less souls he speaks, And life in -- to the dead.", "prose": ["Jesus the pris'ner's fetters breaks,", "And bruises Satan's head;", "Pow'r into strengthless souls he speaks,", "And life into the dead."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "O that the world might taste and see The rich -- es of his grace! The arms of love that com -- pass me Would all man -- kind em -- brace. The arms of love that com -- pass me Would all man -- kind em -- brace.", "prose": ["O that the world might taste and see", "The riches of his grace!", "The arms of love that compass me", "Would all mankind embrace."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "His on -- ly right -- eous -- ness I show, His sav -- ing truth pro -- claim; 'Tis all my busi -- ness here be -- low, To cry, \"Be -- hold the Lamb!\" 'Tis all my busi -- ness here be -- low, To cry, \"Be -- hold the Lamb!\"", "prose": ["His only righteousness I show,", "His saving truth proclaim;", "'Tis all my business here below,", "To cry, \"Behold the Lamb!\""]}, "6": {"syllabified": "Hap -- py, if with my lat -- est breath I may but gasp his name; Preach him to all, and cry in death, \"Be -- hold, be -- hold the Lamb!\" Preach him to all, and cry in death, \"Be -- hold, be -- hold the Lamb!\"", "prose": ["Happy, if with my latest breath", "I may but gasp his name;", "Preach him to all, and cry in death,", "\"Behold, behold the Lamb!\""]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}