Savior of the Nations, Come

The hymn, Savior of the Nation, Come, stresses the importance of Christ's coming and how how through his coming, we are to be saved. The author uses description to express the meaning of the hymn. The general theme is that we are saved though Christ's coming and him being the perfect sacrifice for our salvation. The author uses description many times in this hymn. In the second stanza he says "Not by human flesh and blood" which states that our salvation was not brought by our own doing. he goes on to say "By the Spirit of our God... Women's Offspring, pure and fresh." This shows us that we did nothing to earn our God's forgiveness. We were made "pure and fresh" by his works alone. In the third stanza he talks about how Jesus came from god and returned to him. He also says that when he returned  "High the song of triumph swell", this shows that Jesus had completed the task that God had laid out before him. The author describes Christ as "Glorious" which is an example of Christ's perfection. He conveys the theme of Christ's perfect sacrifice very well by using many different examples of description.