#395: Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord
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lutheranhymnsWho or what is the Holy Ghost?
Usually referred to as the "Holy Spirit," the mysterious third "person" of the Trinity (God the Creator, Jesus, and...everything else). Some older translations have "ghost" instead of "spirit" in the sense that...it's non-physical I guess, but that's a fairly dated usage and mostly just gets used for the rhyme scheme these days. (Since this is a German translation, it's cognate to "Geist," which is maybe less archaic? It's by Luther in the 1500s again, though, so who knows. I don't actually speak much German.)
Is the Holy Ghost also referred to as holy Fire? (See verse 3).
Yeah. So Pentecost (50 days after Easter) commemorates the beginning of the church community as a multilingual organization; according to the Bible, the Holy Spirit landed on the apostles like wind and fire on their heads.
What about holy Light? (Verse 2).
That's a new one on me, but it wouldn't be a Luther original without a bunch of verses.
Usually referred to as the "Holy Spirit," the mysterious third "person" of the Trinity (God the Creator, Jesus, and...everything else). Some older translations have "ghost" instead of "spirit" in the sense that...it's non-physical I guess, but that's a fairly dated usage and mostly just gets used for the rhyme scheme these days. (Since this is a German translation, it's cognate to "Geist," which is maybe less archaic? It's by Luther in the 1500s again, though, so who knows. I don't actually speak much German.)
Is the Holy Ghost also referred to as holy Fire? (See verse 3).
Yeah. So Pentecost (50 days after Easter) commemorates the beginning of the church community as a multilingual organization; according to the Bible, the Holy Spirit landed on the apostles like wind and fire on their heads.
What about holy Light? (Verse 2).
That's a new one on me, but it wouldn't be a Luther original without a bunch of verses.
