Jesus lives, and so do I.

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Adriaen de Vries , 1620: Christ risen above the cenotaph of Ernst von Schaumburg , mausoleum Stadthagen

Jesus lives, with him also I is a hymn for Easter . The text is by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , first published in 1757 in his collection of spiritual odes and songs . Gellert wrote the six stanzas to the melody of the death song Jesus, a good hundred years older , with which his text, hardly changed, is also today in the Evangelical Hymnal (No. 115). The Mennonite hymn book contains a four-stanza version (No. 410), and the Catholic Praise to God from 2013 also contains a four-stanza version with the melody by Albert Höfer (No. 336).

Emergence

Gellert justifies his spiritual song creation in the preface to the spiritual odes and songs with the “duty of the poets” to “dedicate the power of poetry primarily to the truths and feelings of religion”, as well as with “that the taste of poetry and eloquence has changed a lot in our centuries. Much was in the language of our fathers, in their way of thinking, allowed, customary and indecent that it is no longer in our days. ”Therefore, several texts in the collection are unmistakably modern counterfactures of older songs. Jesus lives, with him I too, formally and in terms of content, follow Jesus, my confidence from Otto von Schwerin (EG 526). However, the accent has shifted from the comfort in dying - which Gellert also addresses - to the praise of the risen Jesus.

Text in the Evangelical Hymnal and in Praise of God

Jesus lives, I also live with him , first printed in 1757
1. Jesus lives, and so do I with him!
Death, where are your horrors now?
He, he lives and will be me too
raise from the dead.
He transfigured me into his light;
this is my confidence.
2. Jesus lives! The kingdom is to him
given over all the world;
with him I will too
rule forever, live forever.
God fulfills what he promises:
this is my confidence.
3. Jesus lives! Who now despairs
blaspheme him and God's honor.
He has promised grace
that the sinner should be converted.
God does not repudiate in Christ;
this is my confidence.
4. Jesus lives! His salvation is mine
his be my whole life;
I want to be pure of heart
to resist evil desires.
He does not leave the weak;
this is my confidence.
5. Jesus lives! I am sure
nothing should separate me from Jesus
no power of darkness
no glory, no suffering.
His loyalty does not waver;
this is my confidence.
6. Jesus lives! Now is death
my entrance into life.
What consolation in distress
will he give my soul
when she speaks to him in faith:
"Lord, Lord, my confidence!"

Melodies

The melody published in Johann Crüger's practice Pietatis Melica in 1653 without giving a statement of responsibility ? / i from Jesus, my confidence is probably the work of Crüger himself. Gellert expressly assigns it to the text Jesus lives in the appendix to his collection of sacred songs , and so do I ; he was sure to have it in his ear as he wrote it. In his day it was sung in the rhythmically simplified version, which is now in the EC as a "later form" alongside the original version. Audio file / audio sample

In the Catholic area Jesus found life, with him I also spread it since the 19th century, u. a. with a melody by Johann Adam Hiller . In the praise of God in 2013 it was with the melody popular in southern Germany ? / i of the Augsburg pastor Albert Höfer († 1857). Audio file / audio sample

Another setting can be found in Professor Gellert's sacred odes and songs with melodies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ( Wq 194.10 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preface
  2. ↑ The rare meter, a trochaic bar form , can only be found in Great God, we praise you , with the exception of melodies composed especially for this text .
  3. ↑ Rom 6,5  EU
  4. ↑ Eph 1: 19-21  EU
  5. ↑ a b stanza is missing in the Praise of God and in the MG.
  6. ↑ Rom 8,1  EU
  7. ↑ Original "and the lusts"
  8. ↑ Rom 6.12  EU
  9. ↑ Rom. 8 : 38-39  EU
  10. ↑ Original "He gives strength to this duty."
  11. ↑ Original "es"
  12. ↑ Gotteslob (1975) , Diocesan edition Hildesheim 831