Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 67 · Songs for the Church Year · Page 95 in print
Epiphany Singing
An Epiphany hymn translated by Edward Caswall gives symbolic meanings to the gifts: gold for kingship, incense for divinity, and myrrh for a future tomb.
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Bethlehem
The town addressed by that hymn.
Cana
The place of the water-to-wine sign named in hymn 38.
Chatterton Dix
The writer of the hymn beginning As with gladness.
Cradle
The resting place pictured in Heber’s hymn.
Edom
The place named in its description of perfumes.
Edward Caswall
The translator of the hymn about Bethlehem.
Epiphany
The season named above these hymns.
Gold
The gift interpreted as a sign of kingship.
Incense
The fragrant gift interpreted as a sign of divinity.
John Monsell
The author credited for hymn 42.
John Morison
The author credited for hymn 43.
Jordan
The river of Christ’s baptism in the same hymn.
Myrrh
The gift linked to the future tomb.
Oblation
An offering, discussed in Heber’s fourth stanza.
Pearls
The ocean treasures in the same hymn.