Religion
Genesis 28:12, 13: What doth the ladder mean
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
What doth the ladder mean,
Sent down from the Most High?
Fasten'd to earth its foot is seen,
Its summit to the sky:
Lo! up and down the scale
The angels swiftly move,
And God, the great Invisible,
Himself appears above!
Jesus that ladder is.
The' incarnate Deity,
Partaker of celestial bliss
And human misery;
Sent from His high abode,
To sleeping mortals given.
He stands, and man unites to God,
And earth connects with heaven.
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Wesley, Charles. “Genesis 28:12, 13: What doth the ladder mean.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2453/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Genesis 28:12, 13: What doth the ladder mean.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2453/.
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