Wednesday, December 3, 2025

A Christmas Poem on Sin and Redemption


I have quoted the final two lines in each of the second, fourth, seventh and ninth stanzas below from "The Holly and the Ivy," a fifteenth-century English carol. The quotation in the fifth stanza below is from verse 15 in chapter 1 of the First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy (King James Version).

From the letters of
The name of what month can be
Formed a word of six
Letters that means "to free from
The consequences of sin"?

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed the word REDEEM.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour."

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed a verb of six
Letters that means "from sin and
Damnation to deliver."

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed the verb REDEEM.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good."

"This is a faithful
Saying, and worthy of all
Acceptation," wrote
Paul, "that Christ Jesus came into
The world to save sinners."

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed a word of six
Letters that means "to free from
The consequences of sin."

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed the word REDEEM..
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas in the morn."

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed a verb of six
Letters that means "from sin and
Damnation to deliver>"

From the letters of
The name DECEMBER can be
Formed the verb REDEEM.
"And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all."


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