Adam's fall is utterly corrupt
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Adam's Fall Is All Corrupted is a spiritual song with a text by Lazarus Spengler from 1524. The an unknown composer has been associated with the text since 1529.
Emergence
Spengler's poetry was inspired by Martin Luther's Reformation songs . A specific reason or purpose is not known.
content
The nine-strophic song is a didactic poem . It represents the Lutheran doctrine of justification in a comprehensive and memorable way. Most of the eight-line stanzas are grammatically a single sentence. The biblical background in stanzas 1–4 is the story of the fall of man in Genesis ( Gen 3,1–24 LUT ) and the Pauline Adam-Christ typology ( Rom 5,6–21 LUT ; 1 Cor 15,21–22 LUT ), in Verse 5 also includes the I-am-words of the Gospel of John . The person, who in the negative tradition since Adam and Eve finds himself sinful and deadly ( original sin ), is even more “cursed” through his attempts at self-redemption (stanza 6). Salvation comes to him from without, through the vicarious suffering and death of the Son of God Jesus Christ. Who those in preaching the Word of God promised salvation in faith takes, receives comfort and salvation (verse 7). In stanzas 8 and 9 the didactic poem becomes a prayer ; the last stanza ties in with Psalm 119,105 LUT . The second half of these becomes doctrinal again, praising the gifts of the Holy Spirit that are promised to believers.
reception
Spenglers Lied appeared as early as 1524 in Johann Walter's Geistliches Gesangbüchlein , which Martin Luther himself authorized. On the subject of original sin, it found its way into the confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ( BSLK ). In the sphere of influence of Lutheran Orthodoxy , it was part of the core of church chant until the middle of the 18th century. The experiential currents of Pietism and the Enlightenment , however, took offense at the axiomatic doctrine of original sin in the opening stanzas. Albert Schweitzer called Durch Adams Fall in his commentary on Bach's little organ book "the gruesome song of original sin". The first supraregional German Evangelical Church Hymnbook from 1854 did not contain it, nor did the German Evangelical Hymnbook from 1914. In contrast, a seven-stanza version (without Spengler's stanzas 2 and 6) was included in the Evangelical Church Hymnal (1950) (no. 243). The editors of the Evangelical Hymn book (1993) dropped it again.
Significant musical arrangements of the song include Johann Sebastian Bach's organ arrangement from the little organ book BWV 637 and Dietrich Buxtehude's organ arrangement BuxWV 183. Two cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann are based on the song ( TWV 1: 395 and 1: 396).
text
1. Because of Adam's fall,
human nature and beings are completely corrupted , the
same poison is inherited on us,
that we could not recover
without God's consolation, who has redeemed us
from the great harm in which
the serpent conquered Eve,
God's wrath to load.
2. Because the serpent brought Eve
that it fell
away from God's word, which it despises,
thereby bringing
death in us all , there was ever a need
that God should also give us
his dear Son, the throne of grace that
we want to live in.
3. As we have been mocked by a foreign guilt
in Adam,
so a foreign grace
in Christ has reconciled us all;
and as we all
died in eternal death through Adam's fall ,
so God through Christ's death
denied what was corrupted.
4.
If he gave us his son, since we were still his' enemy ',
who was
hung on the cross for us, killed', went to heaven,
so that we would be
redeemed from death and pain , so we trust
in them Hort, the father's word,
who will dread dying?
5. He is the way, the light, the gate,
the truth and the life,
the father's advice and eternal word,
which he has given us
for protection that we
should firmly believe in him with defiance ,
so we soon have no power nor violence
from his hand will steal .
6. Man is godless and cursed,
his salvation is still a long way off,
who seeks consolation in a man
and not in God the Lord;
for whoever wants to set another goal
without this comforter
may very soon
frighten the devil's violence with his cunning.
7. Whoever hopes in God and trusts in him
will never be shamed;
for whoever builds on this rock,
regardless of whether there is a
lot of accidents at hand, I have never
seen a person fall who
relies on God's consolation;
he helps his 'believers' all.
8. I ask, O Lord, from the
bottom of my heart, you will not take from me
your holy word out of my mouth,
so I will not be ashamed of
my sin and guilt, for in your grace
I put all my trust;
whoever firmly relies on it
will not see death.
9. Your holy word is at my feet
a burning lantern,
a light that shows me the way;
When
this morning star
rises in us, so soon
man understands the lofty gifts that
God's spirit promises to the 'g'wiss who
have hope in them.
Translations
A Danish translation, “Af Adams fald er plat forderffd all vor natur oc sinde…” appeared in Ludwig Dietz's Danish hymn book in 1531, in Hans Tausen's hymn book , En Ny Psalmebog , from 1553, was also translated into Swedish in 1543 and is in Danish Hymn book by Hans Thomissøn, Psalmebog , Copenhagen 1569 (compare Nils Schiørring, Det 16. og 17. århundredes verdslige danske visesang , Volume 1, Copenhagen 1950, p. 28). Around 1639 this melody was also used for other Danish songs.
literature
- Adam's fall is utterly corrupt . In: Bernd Hamm, Wolfgang Huber et al. (Ed.): Lazarus Spengler writings. Volume 1: Writings from 1509 to June 1525 . Gütersloh 1995, pp. 398-405
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Arneth: Adam's fall is completely corrupt ... - Studies on the origin of the Old Testament prehistory , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007, p. 9.
- ↑ cf. Article 2 of the Confessio Augustana
- ↑ Here reflexively : "itself"
- ↑ Cf. Otto Holzapfel : Lied index: The older German-language popular song tradition ( online version on the Volksmusikarchiv homepage of the Upper Bavaria district ; in PDF format; ongoing updates) with further information.