{"slug": "savior-of-the-nations-come", "title": "Savior of the Nations, Come", "first_line": "Savior of the Nations, Come", "author": "ambrose-of-milan", "author_date": "c. 397", "adapter": "martin-luther", "adapter_date": "1524", "translator": "william-morton-reynolds", "translator_date": "1851", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [7, 7, 7, 7], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Advent", "Christmas", "Incarnation"], "scripture": ["John 1:14"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pd_by_nonrenewal", "pd_evidence": "Words: Latin \"Veni redemptor gentium\" (Ambrose of Milan, c. 397), German \"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland\" (Martin Luther, 1524), English by William Morton Reynolds, 1851, as revised in the pre-1931 Lutheran hymnals. Text taken from The Cyber Hymnal (live hymntime.com fetch, 2026-07-09) and cross-checked word-for-word against the Open Hymnal Project (2007 revision) \u2014 the two agree throughout (elisions normalized: heav'n, o'er, vict'ry). Lineage verified against hymnary.org authorities: stanzas 3, 4, 6 and lines 3-4 of stanza 5 are Reynolds 1851 verbatim (\"Come, Thou Saviour of our race\"); stanzas 1, 2, 7 and the shape of stanza 5 follow the pre-1931 composite of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (1892/1912/1918, No. 141, \"Saviour of the heathen, come\" \u2014 including this text's \"here make Thy home\" word order). The familiar opening (\"nations\" for \"heathen\"; \"Marvel now, O heav'n and earth\") is first attested in The Lutheran Hymnal (1941) No. 95, whose text of this hymn carries no surviving US copyright: Project Wittenberg lists TLH 95 among the hymnal's public-domain texts (it is absent from their still-under-copyright list), CCEL hosts it in full, and both The Cyber Hymnal and the Open Hymnal Project distribute it as public domain. The later copyrighted translations of this chorale (F. Samuel Janzow; Calvin Seerveld; David Schubert \u2014 separate hymnary.org authorities) share no stanzas with this text and are excluded.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Sav -- ior of the na -- tions, come; Vir -- gin's Son, here make Thy home! Mar -- vel now, O heav'n and earth, That the Lord chose such a birth.", "prose": ["Savior of the nations, come;", "Virgin's Son, here make Thy home!", "Marvel now, O heav'n and earth,", "That the Lord chose such a birth."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Not by hu -- man flesh and blood; By the Spir -- it of our God Was the Word of God made flesh, Wom -- an's off -- spring, pure and fresh.", "prose": ["Not by human flesh and blood;", "By the Spirit of our God", "Was the Word of God made flesh,", "Woman's offspring, pure and fresh."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Won -- drous birth! O won -- drous Child Of the vir -- gin un -- de -- filed! Though by all the world dis -- owned, Still to be in heav'n en -- throned.", "prose": ["Wondrous birth! O wondrous Child", "Of the virgin undefiled!", "Though by all the world disowned,", "Still to be in heav'n enthroned."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "From the Fa -- ther forth He came And re -- turn -- eth to the same, Cap -- tive lead -- ing death and hell High the song of tri -- umph swell!", "prose": ["From the Father forth He came", "And returneth to the same,", "Captive leading death and hell", "High the song of triumph swell!"]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Thou, the Fa -- ther's on -- ly Son, Hast o'er sin the vic -- t'ry won. Bound -- less shall Thy king -- dom be; When shall we its glo -- ries see?", "prose": ["Thou, the Father's only Son,", "Hast o'er sin the vict'ry won.", "Boundless shall Thy kingdom be;", "When shall we its glories see?"]}, "6": {"syllabified": "Bright -- ly doth Thy man -- ger shine, Glo -- rious is its light di -- vine. Let not sin o'er -- cloud this light; Ev -- er be our faith thus bright.", "prose": ["Brightly doth Thy manger shine,", "Glorious is its light divine.", "Let not sin o'ercloud this light;", "Ever be our faith thus bright."]}, "7": {"syllabified": "Praise to God the Fa -- ther sing, Praise to God the Son, our King, Praise to God the Spir -- it be Ev -- er and e -- ter -- nal -- ly.", "prose": ["Praise to God the Father sing,", "Praise to God the Son, our King,", "Praise to God the Spirit be", "Ever and eternally."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}