Time&Eternity

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2.5
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1.5
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Advent
No Concept of Time without Narrated Time 21
Christmas
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Epiphany
EG ● GL ✽ Sv ps and Ps90 ✦ AHB ✸
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Lent
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Easter
with time indications and the number of hymns in the individual subject
areas can be seen in the chart above.
Time Terminology
Of those passages that were examined, 217 (EG) or 147 (GL) mention
the word Zeit(en) (time[s]) or one of its derivatives or compound words, or
the term Zukunft (future). This results in percentage incidence rates of terminology
regarding time of 24.5 percent or 25.4 percent in all time-indicating
passages. Because this slight variance can certainly lie within the margin
of error, no quantitative differences with regard to time terminology can be
verified here.
The EG mentions Zeit (time) 181 times, 25 of which are in the plural. In
GL, the corresponding figures are 128 and 23, respectively. One thus sees the
word Zeiten (times) relatively more often in GL than in EG. Zukunft (future)
is mentioned six times in each of the hymnals. Some representative
passages containing the words zeitlich (temporal), beizeiten (in good time),
and jederzeit (at any time) have also been examined. The following concepts,
which are expressed by compound (time terminology) terms, should
be mentioned: Gnadenzeit (time of grace) (4/2), 47 Erdenzeit (time on earth)
(1/6), Leidenszeit(en) (time(s) of suffering) (3/1), Morgenzeit (morning time)
(1/1), Weihnachtszeit (Christmas season) (1/1), Sommerzeit (summertime)
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Trinity
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End of Church Year
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Death, Suffering, Heaven