Title: Sing Praises to God Source:
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Post some of your favorite hymns to God.
To get things started, here is Fr. Seraphim bit-Karibi leading a few members of his flock in singing the Trisagion Hymn in an unfinished Church building that is being built in the country of Georgia. Although in Georgia, they are Assyrian Orthodox and singing in Aramaic -- the language of Jesus Christ when he was Incarnate among us.
A translation of the hymn in English:
"Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us!"
Did the Jewish people of two thousand years ago not speak Hebrew?
Actually many did not speak it fluently. The Septuagint, for example, was a translation of the Old Testament into Greek for Jews that did not understand Hebrew well. In many parts of the New Testament, they are actually quoting from the Septuagint translation -- since the original New Testament was written in Greek and Aramaic. Those two languages were the most commonly used "international languages" at the time of Christ.
Writing the Scriptures in those languages enabled most people within the Roman Empire to be able to read and hear it in a language that they knew.
