O Emmanuel

O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Saviour: Come and save us, O Lord our God. Emmanuel means God-with-us. The juxtaposition of God-with-us and imagery like "king" and "lawgiver" is a good one. This is not some lofty palace-dwelling ruler who...