{"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: grammar geekiness ahead.<\/p>\n

I hate songs with nonsensical lyrics, especially those that purport to be worship songs. The lyrics of a song matter far more to me than their accompanying music: I would forbid a song from being played in my ministry for having bad lyrics but never for having chords which I did not like.<\/p>\n

And so I was especially pleased to make sense of some puzzling lyrics in My Redeemer Lives<\/a> <\/p>\n

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in church this morning.<\/p>\n

The problematic stanza is<\/p>\n

You lift my burdens
\nI\u2019ll rise with You
\nI\u2019m dancing on this mountain top
\nto see Your kingdom come<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was hung up on the word \u201cto\u201d, which I took to mean \u201cI am dancing on this mountain top in order to bring about Your Kingdom\u2019s arrival.\u201d In another language this would be called a dative of purpose. This troubled me, because as Lindsey<\/a> download the tragedy of macbeth online<\/a><\/u> download drag me to hell dvd<\/a> <\/strong>download the namesake online<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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said this morning, \u201cThere are few things less likely to bring about the kingdom than dancing on a mountain. How about feeding some homeless people or talking to someone about Jesus?\u201d<\/p>\n

But then I realized there were at least two other interpretations of the word \u201cto\u201d. It could be like a dative of instrument (\u201cI am dancing on this mountain top because I get a good view from up here which enables me to behold Your kingdom as it spreads on earth\u201d) or like an ablative of attendant circumstances (\u201cTo see your Kingdom come causes me to dance on this mountain top\u201d).<\/p>\n

I suspect it\u2019s the latter. <\/p>\n

So now I can sing that song. <\/p>\n

For the 1% of you who have been similarly puzzled, you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

For the 80% of you wondering if I made up the words dative and ablative, check out Wikipedia\u2019s list of grammatical cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: grammar geekiness ahead. I hate songs with nonsensical lyrics, especially those that purport to be worship songs. The lyrics of a song matter far more to me than their accompanying music: I would forbid a song from being played in my ministry for having bad lyrics but never for having chords which I did \u2026 Continue reading \u201cMy Redeemer Lives Considered From The Standpoint Of Grammar\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}