- Recording date: December 2014
- Tuning: A=440 Hz
- Gitaar: Kwakkel Merula
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Latin for Glory to God on High. On Christmas night, the angels are said to have sung this song after they had reported to the shepherds that Jesus had been born.
It is doubtful that those shepherds, being simple people, could understand Latin, especially since it was the language of the hated Roman occupier who brutally kept the Jews under control and later even had the temple in Jerusalem destroyed. If the angels sang at all, it should have been in Aramaic…