Word: didst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although modest enough, the 1928 changes do excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," becomes who "didst humble thyself to be born of a virgin...
Speck of Dirt. But in the early 1950s, it appears that Hammarskjöld found faith in God. "Didst Thou give me this inescapable loneliness," he wrote, "so that it would be easier for me to give Thee all?" Inspired by the medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness...
Encouraged by the laughter greeting his allusion to pregnant virgins, he followed with a garbled version of the jingle that traditionally goes: "Holy Mother, I do believe/That without sin thou didst conceive;/And now, I pray, in thee believing/That I may sin without conceiving...