Savior of the Nations, Come.

The main theme of Luther’s hymn is that God sent Christ to die for our sinful selves.  The hymn starts off talking about his miraculous birth, to the death and sacrifice of our Savior.  He talks about how important it is that we praise the Lord for this wonderful gift of forgiveness that he gives us.

By reading Savior of the Nations, Come, the reader captures his point as making it known that as Christians we need Jesus Christ as our Savior.  He uses diction to explain his point.  The line, “Though by all the world disowned, Still to be in heaven enthroned” really portrays the word choice that Luther chose to use.  The world is “disowned” because of the sin that haunts us, however through the works of Christ we are made clean and accepted into heaven with our Father.  If Luther used just an ordinary word such as ‘received’ or ‘allowed’, it would not have given off the same emotional effect as “enthroned.”  Diction allows the word choice of the author effects the reader in a different way than a more simple expression.  By using diction he elaborates that as sinners we need Christ’s forgiveness in our lives.