God's son has come

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God's Son is Coming is an Advent song, the text of which is attributed to Michael Weisse , and which was first published in Johann Horn's hymn book of the Bohemian Brothers in 1544. It is in the Evangelical Hymn book under No. 5.

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The song unfolds the coming of the Lord in a threefold time mode: "Is coming" (verse 1), "will come today" (verse 2), "will come" (verse 7). At the beginning, the advent of this poor Lord on earth is described as that of the deliverer and redeemer. The call to repentance (verse 2) is followed by the promise of forgiveness to those who step up in trust (verse 3), receive the sacraments as a gift (verse 4) and in view of a joyful “parting” (bracketed with St. 9 “in it depart”) towards the Last Judgment (verse 5). Verses 6 to 9 develop the parable of the final judgment ( Mt 25 : 31-41  Lut ).

History and reception

The song belongs to a group of 32 songs that were added to the 1531 edition of the hymn book of the Bohemian Brethren compared to Michael Weißes Neu Gesengbuchlein from 1531. The obvious assumption that the texts of these songs came from Johann Horn, the editor of the edition of 1544, is assessed by the hymnologist Martin Rößler as unlikely, since Horn explains in the preface that on the one hand he cannot compete with white poetic abilities, on the other hand white revised and added to his texts after a dispute over the doctrine of the Lord's Supper . Rößler therefore takes the view that the text may come from the estate of Michael Weisse, who died in 1534, and that it fits seamlessly into his personal style.

The song is not included in several later editions of the Bohemian Brethren's songbook. In many cases, certain editions removed the court stanzas 6–8, which were probably perceived as offensive. It is missing in the German Evangelical Hymn . Otto Riethmüller included it in his youth hymn book Ein neue Lied (1932) with five stanzas; Apart from the court stanzas , the sacraments stanza 4 is also missing there. The Evangelical Church Hymns (1950) for the first time offers the version that is still in use today with the "defused" version of stanza 8.

text

God's Son came in 1544; under the melody the text of the first verse of the previous song

1. God's Son is come to
us all
here on this earth
in poor gestures,
that he should
free us from sin and release us .

2. He still comes today
and teaches people
how to turn from sin
to repentance,
from error and folly to
step to the truth.

3. Those who are not ashamed of being
and accept his service
through a right faith
with complete trust,
he
will forgive their sins to them.

4. For he does it 'give himself
in the sacraments
for food,
to prove his love
that they enjoy his
in their conscience.

5. So those who firmly believe
and persist
in
striving to please the Lord in everything , they
will also part with joy
.

6. For
their final end comes soon and quickly ;
there he will
redeem their souls from evil
and lead them with him
to the angelic choirs.

7. Will come from there,
as will be heard
when the dead
rise from the earth
and have to
present themselves at its feet .

8. Then he will part them: then the
upright will
inherit the joys of his kingdom ;
but the wicked come
where they have
to atone for their iniquity.

9. Well now, Lord Jesus,
prepare our hearts so
that we, every hour
invented to be
true believers, may die in them
to eternal joy.

melody

The melody comes from the late medieval Latin Marian song Ave hierarchia from the Hohenfurth Abbey in South Bohemia (1410). It was taken over by Michael Weisse in 1531 in the first edition of the Bohemian Brothers' hymn book for the song Menschenkind, merk just . She was u. a. edited by Johann Sebastian Bach in the organ booklet ( God, through your goodness , BWV 600).

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Web links

Commons : God's Son is Coming  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Wikibooks: Songbook / God's Son is Coming  - sheet music for the song

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b A hymn book of the brothers in Behemen vnd Merherrn, Die one auss vnd neyd, Pickharden, Waldenses, & c. calls. Johann Günther, Nuremberg 1544, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00083305-1 .
  2. ↑ See Jan Roh: Vorred. In: A hymn book of the brothers in Behemen and Merherrn. Nuremberg 1544, Bl. IIIv f. ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ Martin Rößler: Michael Weisse around 1488-1534 and the Bohemian Brothers. In: ders .: songwriter in the hymn book. Song history in life pictures. Calwer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7668-3695-1 , pp. 214-257, here p. 252.
  4. ↑ In the original: "There he will scheyden you / the pious for joy / the bad for bright / in embarrassing places / where you have to forever / jr vntugent atone".
  5. ↑ Phil 2,7  Lut
  6. ↑ Mt 4,17b  Lut
  7. ↑ Rom 1,16  Lut
  8. ↑ Joh 6:51  Lut
  9. ↑ Mt 25 : 31-41  Lut
  10. ↑ Mt 25 : 31-41  Lut
  11. ↑ Isa 35,10  Lut
  12. ^ Ave hierarchia in Guido Maria Dreves : Cantiones Bohemicae. Corpse, songs and calls from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Fues, Leipzig 1886, p. 93 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  13. ↑ Hymn book of the Bohemian Brothers 1531. Edited by Konrad Ameln in a reprint true to the original. Kassel, Basel 1957 (facsimile of the first edition Ein New Gesengbuchlein. Jungbunzlau 1531, DKL 153102, VD 16 XL 8).