How O Holy Night is anti-slavery. Do you know how good this song is?

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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O Holy night! The stars are brightly shiningIt is the night of our dear Savior's birthLong lay the world in sin and error pining'Til He appears and the soul felt its worthA thrill of hope the weary world rejoicesFor yonder breaks a new and glorious mornFall on your knees; O hear the Angel voices!O night divine, O night when Christ was bornO night, O Holy night, O night divine! Led by the light of Faith serenely beamingWith glowing hearts by His cradle we standSo led by light of a star sweetly gleamingHere come the Wise Men from Orient landThe King of kings lay thus in lowly mangerIn all our trials born to be our friendHe knows our need, to our weakness is no strangerBehold your King; before Him lowly bendBehold your King; before Him lowly bend Truly He taught us to love one another;His law is love and His Gospel is PeaceChains shall He break, for the slave is our brotherAnd in His name, all oppression shall ceaseSweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise weLet all within us Praise His Holy nameChrist is the Lord; O praise His name forever!His power and glory evermore proclaimHis power and glory evermore proclaim I'm Mike Winger and my goal is to help people learn to think biblically about everything. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	Oh Holy Night, which has got to be one of my favorite
0:02.0	Christmas songs and really one of my favorite worship songs.
0:05.0	I love this song of Holy Night and you should love it too,
0:08.0	and I'm going to tell you why.
0:10.0	First off, here's some trivia for it.
0:11.0	It premiered in 1847 in France. In France. It was actually
0:17.6	written in French by a guy who might be named Placid Capo. I have no idea how to pronounce his name I think I just
0:25.0	described some sort of Brazilian martial art it was originally called cantique
0:28.7	de Noel which is like song of Christmas is a French or French-ish depending on how I said it. It means
0:35.5	Song of Christmas. The music was by a different guy named Adolf Adam and
0:39.7	then years later it was translated into English by a guy named John Sullivan Dwight who was an abolitionist.
0:49.0	In fact that's something that the author of the song and the translator in English had in common
0:53.2	they were opposed to slavery and that will play into us understanding this song.
0:58.3	It is a story song. The first verse it starts off saying oh holy night the stars are brightly shining it is the night of our dear
1:06.6	Savior's birth and that sort of sets the stage for the story you now know what we're talking about oh it's it's the holy night, it's night time,
1:14.5	it's the time of the Savior's birth,
1:16.7	the stars are brightly shining,
1:18.0	that might be a, perhaps a casual reference
1:21.8	to the Magi seeing the star the stages set then there it says
1:25.9	long lay the world in sin and error pining and these are two issues according to
1:31.4	the song that the world has,
1:32.5	Sin and error.
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