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Bethany Kacich's avatar

Tell us more about Paul’s writing the first Christian hymn! I don’t know about this!

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Joe Welker's avatar

Paul may not have authored it himself, and we don't know if it was literally the first hymn, but his putting it in Philippians makes it likely as the earliest written-down hymn (and if it wasn't a hymn, perhaps used as something else in liturgy). https://claytonfaulkner.com/2018/05/14/hymns-in-the-new-testament-philippians-25-11/

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