4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
—Psalms 23:4 (KJV)
I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
—Psalms 23:4 (KJV)
Onward, Christian Soldiers is a 19th-century English hymn. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Sullivan named the tune "St. Gertrude," after the wife of his friend Ernest Clay Ker Seymer, at whose country home he composed the tune. The hymn's theme is taken from references in the New Testament to the Christian being a soldier for Christ, for example 2 Timothy 2:3 (KJV): "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
This music video and song are set to the movie and background of The Bible—Kingdom (S1, Ep4), Although Christ had not yet come incarnate to the earth at the time of 1 Samuel 17, God existed. Moreover, the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirt existed. The world and humankind may not yet have been blessed with Jesus' physical presence, but he existed. Jesus is the great I AM of the Old and New Testaments.
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