Amazing grace: how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now I see. I love that song so very much and I’m sure a lot of you do, too. This song describes God’s unfailing mercy and grace — and what a beautiful [...]
Posted on May 7, 2009, 8:00 am, by Philip Hanson, under
Onomaticon.
Shiloh When the patriarch Jacob realized that he was going to die soon, he gathered his sons together and blessed them — or more accurately, he foretold what each tribe of Israel would become. Judah was favored, but there is an unfamiliar phrase in the middle of his blessing: “The sceptre shall not depart from [...]