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My tenth Christmastide reflection on that beautiful carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, focusses upon its fifth verse’s final two lines:

In ancient times didst give the law,
In cloud, and majesty, and awe.

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My ninth Christmastide reflection on that beautiful carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, focusses upon its fifth verse’s first lines:

O come, O come, thou Lord of Might
Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai's height

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My eighth Christmastide reflection on that beautiful carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, focusses upon its fourth verse’s second couple of lines:

Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.

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My seventh Christmastide reflection on that beautiful carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, focusses upon its fourth verse’s first couple of lines:

O come, Thou Key of David, come
And open wide our heavenly home.

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My sixth Christmastide reflection on that beautiful carol, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, focusses upon its third verse’s first two lines:

Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death's dark shadows put to flight.

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Anyone visiting Salem Chapel on Tuesday would have seen a remarkable sight. The valley over which our chapel looks was filled with fog, but the sky above was blue and the higher land perfectly visible. It gave the impression of being a large expanse of water or, even more imaginatively, being high up in the sky, peering down on the clouds below, as folk do when they jet off to sunnier climes.