https://www.hymnwiki.org/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Love_Divine%2C_All_Loves_Excelling 2026-04-10T02:47:02Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.hymnwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Love_Divine,_All_Loves_Excelling&diff=6447&oldid=prev 2007-09-25T05:14:00Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:14, 25 September 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Love divine, all loves excelling''''' is the incipit (opening words) of one of the best-known hymns written by [[Charles Wesley]]. Its theme is the praise of Jesus Christ as the embodiment of God's love, entreating him to raise us to full communion with God the Father. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Love divine, all loves excelling''''' is the incipit (opening words) of one of the best-known hymns written by [[Charles Wesley]]. Its theme is the praise of Jesus Christ as the embodiment of God's love, entreating him to raise us to full communion with God the Father. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The text of this hymn has been set to at least a dozen tunes; in recent hymnals, the most common tunes are probably ''[[Blaenwern]]'' in British hymnals, and ''[[Hyfrydol]]'' and ''[[Beecher]]'' in American ones; the [[Christian Life Hymnal, 2006]] sets the text to all three of the foregoing tunes. Other tunes found include ''[[Moriah]]'', ''[[Abbot's Leigh]]'', ''[[Airedale]]'', and ''[[Love Divine]]''. All of these except the last mentioned construe the text, metrically, as [[8 7 8 7 D]]; ''Love Divine'' (composed for the text by Sir [[John Stainer]]) treats it as [[8 7 8 7]], hence when so set the text has twice as many stanzas as otherwise.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The text of this hymn has been set to at least a dozen tunes; in recent hymnals, the most common tunes are probably ''[[Blaenwern]]'' in British hymnals, and ''[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Hyfrydol (Tune)|</ins>Hyfrydol]]'' and ''[[Beecher]]'' in American ones; the [[Christian Life Hymnal, 2006]] sets the text to all three of the foregoing tunes. Other tunes found include ''[[Moriah]]'', ''[[Abbot's Leigh]]'', ''[[Airedale]]'', and ''[[Love Divine]]''. All of these except the last mentioned construe the text, metrically, as [[8 7 8 7 D]]; ''Love Divine'' (composed for the text by Sir [[John Stainer]]) treats it as [[8 7 8 7]], hence when so set the text has twice as many stanzas as otherwise.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td></tr> </table>

Veramet https://www.hymnwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Love_Divine,_All_Loves_Excelling&diff=4596&oldid=prev 2007-07-28T10:04:28Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:04, 28 July 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Love divine, all loves excelling''''' is the incipit (opening words) of one of the best-known hymns written by [[Charles Wesley]]. Its theme is the praise of Jesus Christ as the embodiment of God's love, entreating him to raise us to full communion with God the Father. &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Love divine, all loves excelling''''' is the incipit (opening words) of one of the best-known hymns written by [[Charles Wesley]]. Its theme is the praise of Jesus Christ as the embodiment of God's love, entreating him to raise us to full communion with God the Father. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The text of this hymn has been set to at least a dozen tunes; in recent hymnals, the most common tunes are probably ''[[Blaenwern]]'' in British hymnals, and ''[[Hyfrydol]'' and ''[[Beecher]]'' in American ones. Other tunes found include ''[[Moriah]]'', ''[[Abbot's Leigh]]'', ''[[Airedale]]'', and ''[[Love Divine]]''. All of these except the last mentioned construe the text, metrically, as [[8 7 8 7 D]]; ''Love Divine'' (composed for the text by Sir [[John Stainer]]) treats it as [[8 7 8 7]], hence when so set the text has twice as many stanzas as otherwise.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The text of this hymn has been set to at least a dozen tunes; in recent hymnals, the most common tunes are probably ''[[Blaenwern]]'' in British hymnals, and ''[[Hyfrydol<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>]'' and ''[[Beecher]]'' in American ones<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">; the [[Christian Life Hymnal, 2006]] sets the text to all three of the foregoing tunes</ins>. Other tunes found include ''[[Moriah]]'', ''[[Abbot's Leigh]]'', ''[[Airedale]]'', and ''[[Love Divine]]''. All of these except the last mentioned construe the text, metrically, as [[8 7 8 7 D]]; ''Love Divine'' (composed for the text by Sir [[John Stainer]]) treats it as [[8 7 8 7]], hence when so set the text has twice as many stanzas as otherwise.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td></tr> </table>

Haruo https://www.hymnwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Love_Divine,_All_Loves_Excelling&diff=3485&oldid=prev 2007-06-06T10:22:20Z

<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Love divine, all loves excelling&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is the incipit (opening words) of one of the best-known hymns written by <a href="/Charles_Wesley" title="Charles Wesley">Charles Wesley</a>. Its theme is the praise of Jesus Christ as the embod...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''''Love divine, all loves excelling''''' is the incipit (opening words) of one of the best-known hymns written by [[Charles Wesley]]. Its theme is the praise of Jesus Christ as the embodiment of God's love, entreating him to raise us to full communion with God the Father. <br /> <br /> The text of this hymn has been set to at least a dozen tunes; in recent hymnals, the most common tunes are probably ''[[Blaenwern]]'' in British hymnals, and ''[[Hyfrydol]'' and ''[[Beecher]]'' in American ones. Other tunes found include ''[[Moriah]]'', ''[[Abbot's Leigh]]'', ''[[Airedale]]'', and ''[[Love Divine]]''. All of these except the last mentioned construe the text, metrically, as [[8 7 8 7 D]]; ''Love Divine'' (composed for the text by Sir [[John Stainer]]) treats it as [[8 7 8 7]], hence when so set the text has twice as many stanzas as otherwise.<br /> <br /> ==History==<br /> <br /> ==Lyrics==<br /> <br /> ==Tunes==<br /> <br /> ==Sheet Music==<br /> <br /> ==External Sound Files==<br /> <br /> [[category:Jesus Christ]]<br /> [[category:Love]]<br /> [[category:Hymns by Charles Wesley]]<br /> [[category:8 7 8 7 D]]</div>

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