The Love of God After endless searching in libraries someone decided to ask a Jewish rabbi—perhaps he would have a clue. The rabbi listened intently to the words, and quietly replied, Yes, I can tell you the author of those lines. It is Rabbi Hertz who wrote a book, A Book of Jewish Thought. This poem was written in A.D.1050 by Jewish poet, Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai. It is in the hymnology of the synagogue used for the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost. We can imagine this poet standing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, contemplating the great love of his Jehovah. His heart is moved by the fires of inspiration. As the love of God sweeps over Meir Ben Isaac Nehorais soul, his imagination fills the ocean with ink, the arching skies seem to magnify the scope of this all-compelling love, and the papyrus marsh comes to life with countless scribes writing ceaselessly and tirelessly about the measureless love of God. Nehorais love epic lay dormant through succeeding centuries. But Providence watched over and preserved these memorable lines. Yes, the third stanza of The Love of God was written by a Jewish poet in A.D.1050. Time passed, then God put it into the heart of a Gentile song writer, F. M. Lehman, whose heart also responded to Gods love, to add the two stanzas and chorus in our own day, in Pasadena, California, in 1917.
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