"Jesu! Name all Names Above "

This ancient hymn, “Jesu! Name all Names Above” dates back to 890 A.D., and is written by the Greek theologian and monk, known as “Theoktistus.” Due to their antiquity, much of Theoktistus’s writings have been lost except for one article in an eight-volume book called Paracletice or Great Octoechus. The article is actually named “Suppliant Canon to Jesus” in Greek. John M. Neale translated it into English in 1862 when he gathered works to be published in his Hymns of the Eastern Church.

Frederick Arthur Gore-Ouseley set the ancient hymn, “Jesu! Name all Names Above” to music in 1882 for the musical publication of John M. Neale’s Hymns of the Eastern Church under the title “Theoktistus.”

“Jesu! Name all Names Above ”

Jesu! Name all names above,
Jesu, best and dearest,
Jesu, fount of perfect love,
Holiest, tenderest, nearest;
Jesu, source of grace completest,
Jesu purest, Jesu sweetest,
Jesu well of power divine,
Make me, keep me, seal me Thine.

Jesu, open me the gate,
That the robber entered,
Who in that most lost estate
Wholly on Thee ventured.
Thou Whose wounds are ever pleading,
And Thy passion interceding,
From my misery let me rise
To a home in paradise.

Jesu, crowned with thorns for me,
Scourged for my transgression,
Witnessing through agony,
That Thy good confession;
Jesu, clad in purple raiment,
For my evil making payment,
Let not all Thy woe and pain,
Let not Calv’ry be in vain.

When I reach death’s bitter sea,
And its waves mount higher,
Earthly help forsaking me
As the storm draws nigher,
Jesu, leave me not to languish
Helpless, homeless, full of anguish;
Jesu, let me hear Thee say,
“Thou shalt be with Me today.”

It is interesting to note that even ancient hymns such as “Jesu! Name all Names Above” still show the same kind of Jesus that Modern Christianity still describes: “Jesu, crowned with thorns for me, Scourged for my transgression.”

“Jesu! Name all Names Above ”

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