Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn
Lord Christ, the son god agree is one of the oldest Protestant church songs and is a core part of the Reformation chorales ( Lutheran Hymnal No. 67). The text wrote the the Lutheran faith converted nun Elisabeth Cruciger born of Meseritz (around 1500-1535 ). The melody is expected to fall to a secular document, but already in 1524 published one of the oldest Protestant hymnals.
Text
( 1) Lord Christ, the son god, / Father in eternity, / from seim heart sprung agree / is just as written, he / she is the morning star, / be brightening he stretches far / before other stars clear; ( 2) for us born a man / in the last part of the time / mother unlost / her virginal chastity, * / death for us broken / open the sky, / again brought life: ( 3) let us in your love / and take note, / that we remain in the faith, / serve you in mind so, / that we may here taste / your candy in the heart / and thirst always for you. ( 4) You are the creator of all things, / you paternal power / reign of end to end / strong on his own authority. / The heart of us turn to you / and repent from our senses, / that they do not irrn from you. ( 5) Ertöt us. Due to your kindness, / Awake us by your grace / The old man offend **, / that he may live again / and here on this earth / mind and alls desire / and G'danken got to you. (* = In newer hymnal editions usually " that we do not Wärn lost / before God in eternity " ** = Weakness, see Rom. 6:1-4 )
Song
The song includes in his first two verses, the song of praise of Christ, the history of salvation in the life and work of Jesus Christ for mankind. The last three stanzas want the light emanating from the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ salvation for the people deepen: in the form of a request was made of the desire to understand the saving grace of Jesus through resistance and growth in faith and genuine lived heart piety, candy in heart. This shows the text in its basic attitude the connection of Reformation preaching of the gospel with an intimate, almost mystical piety heart of the medieval monastic life and thus reflects the life experience of the young author resist.
The song has amazingly quickly found their way into the hymn-book of the Church. Moreover, it quickly found its place as a prayer the Christian life. So it is quoted by Philipp Nicolai several times as a prayer, and his song How lovely shines the morning star ( Lutheran Hymnal No. 70) engages in many cases to the song by Elisabeth Cruciger (which also uses the " morning star " as a sovereign title for Jesus Christ in verse 1 ) back.
Hymns assignment
The compressed in the verses 1 and 2 Summary of the Incarnation of God with this very Morgenstern title lets the song in the Protestant hymnal appear as the second of the Epiphany hymns ( in the previous hymnal it was on the first place ). It is also the week song for the week after the last Sunday after Epiphany.
Melody
The melody of the song goes on a template ( My Freud 'd probably increase ) back to the 15th century, however - been fashioned - because of the seven-line stanza form with Elisabeth Cruciger. The song was for the first time in 1524 (ie the year of its creation! ) In A Enchiridion or hand book with 25 songs and 15 melodies, the second oldest Protestant hymnal was published in Erfurt and also many songs of Martin Luther ( the wedding pastor of Elizabeth and Caspar Cruciger ) contained.
Summary
The song teaches in text message and melody adapted to understand that Christian faith is not only an act of understanding, but always a movement of the heart.