{"id":1305,"date":"2009-04-12T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2009-07-15T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T15:48:04","slug":"my-redeemer-lives-considered-from-the-standpoint-of-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/04\/12\/my-redeemer-lives-considered-from-the-standpoint-of-grammar","title":{"rendered":"My Redeemer Lives Considered From The Standpoint Of Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING: gram\u00admar geek\u00adi\u00adness ahead.<\/p>\n

I hate songs with non\u00adsen\u00adsi\u00adcal lyrics, espe\u00adcial\u00adly those that pur\u00adport to be wor\u00adship songs. The lyrics of a song mat\u00adter far more to me than their accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading music: I would for\u00adbid a song from being played in my min\u00adistry for hav\u00ading bad lyrics but nev\u00ader for hav\u00ading chords which I did not like.<\/p>\n

And so I was espe\u00adcial\u00adly pleased to make sense of some puz\u00adzling lyrics in My Redeemer Lives<\/a> <\/p>\n

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in church this morn\u00ading.<\/p>\n

The prob\u00adlem\u00adat\u00adic stan\u00adza is<\/p>\n

You lift my bur\u00addens
\nI\u2019ll rise with You
\nI\u2019m danc\u00ading on this moun\u00adtain top
\nto see Your king\u00addom come<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was hung up on the word \u201cto\u201d, which I took to mean \u201cI am danc\u00ading on this moun\u00adtain top in order to bring about Your King\u00addom\u2019s arrival.\u201d In anoth\u00ader lan\u00adguage this would be called a dative of pur\u00adpose. This trou\u00adbled me, because as Lind\u00adsey<\/a> down\u00adload the tragedy of mac\u00adbeth online<\/a><\/u> down\u00adload drag me to hell dvd<\/a> <\/strong>down\u00adload the name\u00adsake online<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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said this morn\u00ading, \u201cThere are few things less like\u00adly to bring about the king\u00addom than danc\u00ading on a moun\u00adtain. How about feed\u00ading some home\u00adless peo\u00adple or talk\u00ading to some\u00adone about Jesus?\u201d<\/p>\n

But then I real\u00adized there were at least two oth\u00ader inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions of the word \u201cto\u201d. It could be like a dative of instru\u00adment (\u201cI am danc\u00ading on this moun\u00adtain top because I get a good view from up here which enables me to behold Your king\u00addom as it spreads on earth\u201d) or like an abla\u00adtive of atten\u00addant cir\u00adcum\u00adstances (\u201cTo see your King\u00addom come caus\u00ades me to dance on this moun\u00adtain top\u201d).<\/p>\n

I sus\u00adpect it\u2019s the lat\u00adter. <\/p>\n

So now I can sing that song. <\/p>\n

For the 1% of you who have been sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly puz\u00adzled, you\u2019re wel\u00adcome.<\/p>\n

For the 80% of you won\u00adder\u00ading if I made up the words dative and abla\u00adtive, check out Wikipedi\u00ada\u2019s list of gram\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal cas\u00ades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: gram\u00admar geek\u00adi\u00adness ahead. I hate songs with non\u00adsen\u00adsi\u00adcal lyrics, espe\u00adcial\u00adly those that pur\u00adport to be wor\u00adship songs. The lyrics of a song mat\u00adter far more to me than their accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading music: I would for\u00adbid a song from being played in my min\u00adistry for hav\u00ading bad lyrics but nev\u00ader for hav\u00ading chords which I did \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cMy Redeemer Lives Con\u00adsid\u00adered From The Stand\u00adpoint Of Gram\u00admar\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}