During Advent, many Christians sing the beloved hymn, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”
CBN News combined the music of this hymn, played by renowned violinist Maurice Sklar, with an explanation of the background and meaning of the song from Claire Pfann, dean of Academic Affairs at University of the Holy Land.
Pfann said that most people don’t realize that this hymn was composed to be an Advent song, not a Christmas carol.
“The hymn was originally taken from a series of sayings that we call antiphons,” she explained. “An antiphon is a saying or an acclimation that is made before the reading of a psalm or a canticle. And each one is based on the titles of the Messiah found in the Old Testament.”
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