Hymn Dictionary

Wayfaring

WAY•fair•ingadjective

Traveling from place to place, especially on foot. A “poor wayfaring man of grief,” then, is a weary traveler. A close literary parallel exists between the wayfaring man and the traveler in the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Matthew 25: 31-40).

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