無比大愛歌

Representative Text

歌頌無比大愛
深奧奇妙難猜
加於冷酷之人
鐵石心腸為開
主竟為我道成肉身
捐軀捨生苦杯獨飲

主曾捨棄寶座
成全救恩為我
人不認識天天
竟將主恩錯過
基督是我最好朋友
捨棄生命贖我愆尤!

有人以衣鋪路
對主熱烈擁護
前簇後擁高唱
和散拿歸基督
竟又大声叫釘死衪
要把衪高懸在十架

人們如此恨主
究竟是何緣故
衪使跛者行走
又使盲者復睹
但這些人妬忌憤慨
同施毒計將衪謀害

我願永遠歌頌
主愛何等高崇
從無如此大愛
從無如此苦痛
因衪是我天朋良友
我願歌唱讚美不休

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13359

Translator: Anonymous

In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >

Author: Samuel Crossman

Crossman, Samuel , B.D. From A. Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1720, vol. ii. p. 730) we gather all that is known of this hymnwriter. Wood says concerning him:— "Samuel Crossman, Bachelor of Divinity of Cambridge, and Prebendary of Bristol, son of Samuel Crossman, of Bradfield Monachorum, in Suffolk. He hath written and published several things, as The Young Man's Monitor, &c, London, 1664, 8vo., and several sermons, among which are two sermons preached in the Cathedral of Bristol, 30th Jan., 1679, and 30th Jan., 1680, being the days of public humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles I, printed at London, 1681, &c.; also a sermon preached 23rd April, 1680, in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, before the Gentlemen of the Artill… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: 歌頌無比大愛 (Gēsòng wúbǐ dà ài)
Title: 無比大愛歌
English Title: My song is love unknown
Author: Samuel Crossman (1664)
Translator: Anonymous
Language: Chinese
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

LOVE UNKNOWN

John Ireland (b. Bowdon, Cheshire, England, 1879; d. Rock Mill, Washington, Sussex, England, 1962) composed LOVE UNKNOWN in 1918 for the text "My song is love unknown"; the tune was first published in The Public School Hymn Book of 1919. A letter in the London Daily Telegraph of April 5, 1950, claim…

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