HYMN
A religious canticle, song, or psalm, Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16. Paul requires Christians to edify one another with "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs." Matthew says that Christ and his disciples, having supped, sung a hymn, and went out. They probably chanted a part of the psalms which the Jews used to sing after the Passover, which they called the Halal; that is, the Hallelujah psalms. These are Psalms 1:113-118, of which the first two are supposed to have been chanted before the Passover was eaten, and the others afterwards.