Of the Father's Love Begotten is not quite as old as the oldest two songs already mentioned here, but it's almost as old, and still widely sung, even in the West. According to The Baptist Hymnal (1991 edition), the words are the work of Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, who lived from 348 to 413.

2012年2月14日 · The modern Catholic abominations hymnals will often do things like that, but that can vary from parish to parish. When I was a singer in a PCUSA church the practice was to manually update, even though the hymnal didn't include it. I have seen similar updates in Lutheran and Baptist hymnals...

2023年11月12日 · I must observe that the world-wide Anglican church uses other hymnals than the ones you are citing, which makes the question ambiguous. I myself grew up on the "English Hymnal", which includes mediaeval hymns. "O come all …

2017年6月8日 · When we were able to print our first Church of God hymnal, not yet having a sufficient number of our own new hymns we filled out our comparatively small hymnals with well-known Protestant hymns whose words were not non-scriptural — even having to change the words in a few instances. Gradually through the years succeeding editions of our ...

2015年7月2日 · Thus, I'd like to know which was the first popular/official* Roman Catholic hymnal to include the hymn. Bonus points for an answer that takes into account non-English hymnals, but an English-only answer is fine too. *Note that I do not know how much oversight the Roman Catholic church exercises over its hymnals.

2024年12月3日 · The Acts of Solomon This is referenced once, in the summary at the end of the reign of Solomon. “Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, all that he did as well as his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon” (1 Kings 11:41).

The significance of one-third in the book of the Revelation is that certain plagues / judgments start with the warning that one-quarter (of this, that and the other) will be destroyed / taken down, then further on, that is upped to one-third, and by the final 7 plagues, everyone on the earth with the mark of the beast is afflicted.

2025年1月14日 · To those who believe that the Angel of the Lord who appears in several situations in the Old Testament was the pre-incarnate Christ: I have come across many writings and opinions from some within the Evangelical Christian movement, asserting that the "angel of the lord" in the Old Testament, is pre-incarnate Jesus (a Christophany). See, for ...

2024年12月30日 · Jesus is the visible manifestation of the invisible God the Father. Every time we read in the Old Testament about God appearing to somebody, by default it is preincarnate Jesus. In many places of the OT we come across the word of God (davar JHVH) coming to someone. It is not limited only to the sound one can hear.

2024年10月17日 · In fact, what inclines me to imagine a huge but non-global event here in Genesis 6-8 is the text itself (the meaning of the Hebrew terms and phrases as they occur elsewhere in the Old Testament, for instance; or the sequence of Genesis 8:4-9).