Eldad, they said, and Medad there
Irregularly bold,
By Moses uncommission’d, dare
A separate meeting hold!
And still whom none, but heaven, will own,
Men whom the world decry,
Men authoriz’d by God alone
Presume to prophesy!
Eldad, they said, and Medad there
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There ran a young man, and told Moses and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.”—[Num.] xi. 27. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 70.
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