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Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

In this episode, we are talking about J-S-B, and I imagine some of you know to whom those

initials belong, they belong to Johann Sebastian Bach, and usually we follow up those three

initials with another set of initials S-D-G, solely deogloria.

But in this instance, I want to follow them up with a set of two different initials J-J.

Jesu Yuvah, Latin for Jesus' help.

Sometimes Bach would say J-H, which would be switching to the German, which also comes off in the

English as Jesus' help.

He would put those initials at the beginning of a composition, whether he was writing something

for the court, and as he often did for his friend Prince Leopold, or he was writing something

for the church, he would begin his work by petitioning Christ to help him.

And when he was all done, he would add those initials S-D-G for all of his work was done

for the glory of God.

Well, let's talk about Bach a little bit.

He was born in the town of Isonok, which has a great Luther connection.

Isonok sits in the valley below the castle of the Vartburg, and that's where Luther was hold

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