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Podcast: Parish Presbyterian Church
Episode: Matthew 1:22-25 The Virgin God-bearer
Description: Many popular Advent and Christmas traditions come to us from the German-speaking world—the Advent wreath, the Advent calendar, the Christmas tree—and the hymnody of the season is no exception. Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming, written in a monastic community in Trier in the Rhineland-Palatinate, refers to Jesus as a flower much in the same way as the book of Isaiah does ("… a shoot from the stump of Jesse" Isaiah 11:1; "For He grew up before Him like a young plant…" Isaiah 53:2). The German composer Felix Mendelssohn thought that the tune from his Festgesang, Op. 68 "would never do to sacre...