Tomorrow Shall Be...

My Dancing Day... I have always loved that song but never really knew what it said until I got this sudden notion to look up the lyrics on the web this evening. Wow, what an amazing piece. Jesus is calling his true love (must be the church) to his dance. Here's the second verse:

2. Then was I born of a virgin pure,
Of her I took fleshly substance
Thus was I knit to man's nature
To call my true love to my dance

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That second "fleshly substance" line caught my attention cuz we're studying our illustrious forefather Menno Simons and learning that he didn't get everything right either. He would have disagreed with that line cuz he thought Jesus did not get his human flesh from Mary, but that it came straight from God. This is known as his "celestial flesh" view. Wonderful stuff, to think that our namesake was guilty of such a heresy. Oh well, at least he was human.