All hail the power of Jesus' name

This is one of my favorite sites, and recently the complete text of this hymn was posted. We Protestants have left out (generally) some of the most vivid images by excluding most of the stanzas (falling seraphim). Have a look at the whole thing. Written by Edward Perronet, the original hymn text was published in 1779 with 8 stanzas. John Rippon was one of several editors who couldn't keep their hands off the text the way it was. He dropped three of the original and added two of his own. He did some helpful re-writing in a couple of places. There was a certain anti-Jewish bias in some of Perronet's words that rightly have been dropped and/or altered. One of the highlights of my youth was singing this hymn using all three (!) tunes (CORONATION; MILES LANE; DIADEM) associated with it in the 1968 Methodist Hymnal. It was a thrill for the congregation, if the ultimate challenge for the organist! Gott sei dank!