{"id":5811,"date":"2010-12-18T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2011-12-18T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:36:15","slug":"o-adonai-o-sacred-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/18\/o-adonai-o-sacred-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"O Adonai: O Sacred Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"

O Adonai,
\net Dux domus Israel
\nqui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti
\net ei in Sina legem dedisti:
\nveni ad redimendum nos in brachio extenso.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLiteral\u201d translation:<\/p>\n

O Lord,
\nand Leader of the house of Israel,
\nwho appeared to Moses in the red flames [ed. note: should read “burning bush”]<\/em>,
\nand who gave the Law to him on Sinai:
\ncome, for liberating us with [your] outstretched arm.<\/p>\n

Present ICEL Translation:<\/p>\n

O sacred Lord of ancient Israel,
\nwho showed yourself to Moses in the burning bush,
\nwho gave him the holy law on Sinai mountain:
\ncome, stretch our your mighty hand to set us free.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assigned as the Gospel Verse at Eucharist and the Antiphon for the Canticle of Mary at Evening Prayer on 18 December, \u201cO Adonai\u201d continues the Advental theme of longing for God\u2019s transformation of the human condition. Employing the same musical phrases as the other \u201cO\u201d Antiphons, it exhibits the same two-part grammatical structure: a divine invocation under various titles and relative clauses followed by the request to come for a particular purpose.<\/p>\n

While there may be some debate over whether the Triune God or specifically Christ is invoked in this antiphon, I take \u201cAdonai\u201d to refer to the one God known as YHWH to the Jews and manifested as a Trinity of Divine Persons with the incarnation of the Second Person in Jesus of Nazareth. As is well known, \u201cAdonai\u201d means \u201cmy Lord\u201d in Hebrew and was substituted in public recitation of the scriptures for the sacred Tetragrammaton, YHWH, representing God\u2019s proper name as revealed in Exodus 3. This God is named as the true guide and protector (dux<\/em>) of the house of Israel, and by extension those who enjoy covenant relationship with this God. As in other First Testament passages when God is identified as \u201cGod of\u2026\u201d (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc.), here God is presented as preeminently \u201cGod of Moses,\u201d both because of the mysterious divine calling to Moses from the burning bush which eventuates in the revelation of the divine name and because of the great gift of Torah represented by the ten \u201cwords\u201d (commandments) bestowed upon Moses as the covenant stipulations established for the Hebrew people. Notice that both of the verbs in these relative clauses are in the perfect tense indicating actions completed in the past whose effects continue into the present.<\/p>\n

The unique focus of the request in this antiphon is that God would come to free those who are praying. At core the verb used evokes the idea of redemption and is taken from the world of economics: a payment is made on our behalf in order to cancel our debt. That this payment would be made by God\u2019s \u201coutstretched arm\u201d at once recalls the refrain in the Deuteronomic history of God\u2019s intervention in human history \u201cwith a mighty hand and an outstretched arm\u201d and the Christian midrash in which the extended arms of the Crucified Christ become the ultimate sign of redemption. How wonderfully, then, does this antiphon highlight the praise of the God who \u201chas shown the strength of his arm\u201d and \u201clifted up the lowly\u2026\u201d as the Magnificat so powerfully sings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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