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Dwight Leslie Armstrong (15 September 1904 – 17 November 1984) was an American composer of hymns based upon texts from the Psalms and other books of the Christian Bible.He was the younger brother of Worldwide Church of God (WCG) founder Herbert W. Armstrong, and uncle of American WCG evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong.
The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is varyingly attributed to the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers, depending on the version, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with ...
[1]: 38 Soon after the New Testament period, psalmody took a preferred position in the worship of the church. There was some hymn-writing in Eastern churches, but in the West psalms and canticles were used almost exclusively until the time of Ambrose of Milan at the end of the fourth century. Even then, the psalms were not completely replaced ...
The New Baptist Praise Book: or, Hymns of the Centuries (1914) [550] The Heart's Offering with Songs New and Old for The Lord's Memorial (1915) [551] Revival Gems: a Small Book with a Big Mission (1921) Living Hymns: the small hymnal: a book of worship and praise for the developing life (1923) [552] The New Baptist Hymnal (1926) [553]
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."
The hymn's first known appearance in a hymnal, and in America, was in 1784 in Divine Hymns, or Spiritual Songs: for the use of Religious Assemblies and Private Christians compiled by Joshua Smith, a lay Baptist minister from New Hampshire. It became prevalent in American publications but not English ones.
The psalm is a hymn psalm, one of the Royal psalms, praising God as the King of His people. Psalm 95 identifies no author, but Hebrews 4:7 attributes it to David . [ 2 ] The Vulgate also names David as the author.
The hymn was originally part of The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, published by Watts in 1719.In this book he paraphrased in Christian verse the entire psalter with the exception of twelve Psalms which he felt were unsuited for Christian usage.