Olney Hymns · Character

The Judge

God as the righteous judge of all the earth.

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First appearance: olney hymns

The Judge shows up with force in The Importunate Widow. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The unjust judge who neither feared God nor regarded man, yet granted the widow's request for his own quiet's sake.

The Judge first appears in 0000 olney hymns.

In The Importunate Widow: The unjust judge who neither feared God nor regarded man, yet granted the widow's request for his own quiet's sake.

Later, in God Speaking from Mount Zion: Will appear at the last day; slighted love will turn to wrath.

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The emotional peak occurs in stanza V, where the speaker’s hope is violently extinguished as Satan obscures ev…

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The Importunate Widow
The unjust judge who neither feared God nor regarded man, yet granted the widow's request for his own quiet's sake.
God Speaking from Mount Zion
Will appear at the last day; slighted love will turn to wrath.
On the Earthquake. Sept. 8, 1775
The one who draws nigh and will come down to judge; sinners will cry for earthquakes to hide from his frown.
The Tolling Bell
God is depicted as the Judge who pronounces the eternal fate of every soul at the tribunal.
Thunder
The Judge is described as hastening down at the final day, before whom sinners must stand.
For a Garden-Seat or Summer-House
The avenging Judge with terrors on his brow, whose frown is to be feared on the approaching day.
I: Solemn Addresses to Sinners
The one who will sit in judgment on the last day, before whom the rich, great, and wise will tremble and be self-condemned.
Prepare to Meet God
The Judge is depicted as having wrathful eyes and a dreadful sentence for the wicked, but as a Friend to those who trust in His name.
A Living and a Dead Faith
The righteous Judge's ear is offended by insincere professions.
Not of Works
God as the Judge who will come to pronounce final doom.

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