The history of psalmody and hymnody in the Church cannot be discussed, however briefly, here. “Psalm-singing” (see further 1Co 14:26 Jas 5:13) is thus a primeval element in not only Christian worship but Christian common life for the Apostle here evidently contemplates social gatherings rather than formulated services similar occasions to those formerly defaced by “excess of wine.” 2Ti 2:11-13) as spiritual odes.Īnother suggested distinction is that a psalm (Gr., psallein, to play,) demanded instrumental accompaniment, a hymn did not. The canticles of Luke 1, 2, would thus rank as psalms the inspired chant of the disciples ( Acts 4) as a hymn and the possibly rhythmic “faithful words” in the Pastoral Epistles (see esp. psalms, or in their manner the hymn, a rhythmic utterance of praise distinctively Christian and the spiritual song, or spiritual ode, a similar utterance, but more of experience or meditation than of praise. But there is probability in the suggestion that the psalm was generally a rhythmic utterance, either actually one of the O. Psalms hymns spiritual songs ] It is impossible to fix precisely the limits of these terms nor does the character of the passage, full of the spirit rather than the theory of praise, demand it. 114), where the worship of the Christians is described, we read “they are used to meet before dawn on a stated day, and to chant ( carmen dicere) to Christ, as to a God, alternately together ( secum invicem).” See Alford’s note here. In the famous Letter of Pliny to Trajan (written between a. Still, it is interesting to remember that responsive hymn-singing was, as a fact, used very early in Christian worship. The first disciples thus “spoke one to another ” in the united outburst of ascription and praise, Act 4:24. But this is most precarious, to say the least the words being fully satisfied by the thought of the mutual spiritual help, most real and powerful now as then, given on any occasion of common spiritual praise. It has been thought that we have here a suggestion of responsive chanting.
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