Who is that babe in the manger? God?
Or a good man sent by God to save us? “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” is an ancient
song affirming the deity of Jesus. It echoes the very earliest claims about Jesus.
The
eyewitnesses proclaimed that Jesus is God.[1]
The infant church believed that Jesus is God.[2]
The ancient church officially acknowledged the deity of Jesus:
We believe in one
Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.[3]
Spanish lawyer,
Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, retired from public life to write poetry in
defense of the deity of Jesus.[4]
The church used his fifth century poems
to create liturgical hymns in worship of Jesus as God.[5]
His poem, “Of the Father’s Love Begotten,” is still sung at Christmas
For almost two
thousand years Jesus has been proclaimed, believed, acknowledged, defended, and
worshipped as God! From the album “The HymnBook – Thirty-Four Hundred Years of
Praise” this video is scrolling playback of Prudentius’ Christmas carol.
Kathy
You can get
print (PDF) and/or digital (MusicXML™) sheet music for Of the Father’s Love Begotten
for Celtic Instruments.
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