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Today is the first Sunday of Advent. And so we
begin again to sing hymns that point towards a
glorious picture of the coming of our Savior,
Jesus, God who became man.
O come, O come, Emmanuel (Hymn 56) is one of the
most recognizable of those hymns. It is a song of
both anticipation and thanksgiving. It anticipates
Emmanuel, derived from a Hebrew word meaning “God
with us.” It anticipates a litany of acts of
liberation from physical and spiritual enslavement
from which Emmanuel will free his faithful people.
And it rejoices that Emmanuel will come.
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