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“Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee” is a hymn that was originally written by a very ungodly priest, Bernard of Clairvaux. Bernard seemed to be a very pious man to the world, but in fact did all he could with his very moving speeches to insight riots against Jewish people, and anything he could to stop Baptists. He also founded the worship of Mary over Christ in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as many other evil deeds.
The hymn was roughly translated by Edward Caswell, cleaning out the Mariolatry wording, and other offensive concepts, so that we have something we can use as Christians. However, even with this extensive reworking, it still has too much mysticism in the name of Jesus (another problem Bernard had), and a complete disregard of the deity and holiness of Christ. Frankly, what is left is a trite chorus, never really stating anything, just implying with innuendo some concepts to the singer. So, the hymn does not say much in each verse, even though the full English poem is rather lengthy.
