Saint John Chrysostom: In a spiritual sense, the coming of the New Testament is a new song: everything that happened then was new – testament (“I shall make a new testament with you,” Scripture says), creation (“If anyone is in […]
Saint John Chrysostom: In a spiritual sense, the coming of the New Testament is a new song: everything that happened then was new – testament (“I shall make a new testament with you,” Scripture says), creation (“If anyone is in […]
Saint John Chrysostom: So having narrated the magnitude of the achievement, with much enthusiasm he invites the world to commendation – hence his use of repetitiory and his invitation not simply to sing praise but to do so with deep […]
SINGING A HYMN. ORIGEN: After the disciples celebrated the feast with their teacher and received the bread of blessing and ate the body of the Word and drank the cup of thanksgiving, Christ taught them to sing a hymn to […]