Come and let us honor Christ

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Come and let's honor Christ ( EG 39, MG 261, RG 403, NG 19, AK 331, F&L 210) is a Christmas song by Paul Gerhardt . The text was first published in 1667 as a Christmas song in the Geistliche Andachten edited by Johann Georg Ebeling and later adopted in Johann Crüger's hymn book Praxis Pietatis Melica . It is based on the Quem pastores laudavere (from the Hohenfurt songbook around 1460) , which was particularly widespread in ancient times . Melody ? / i and meter of the German song are borrowed from the first part of the Quempas melody. The Gerhardt version has eight stanzas, however, twice as many as the Latin one. Audio file / audio sample

A choral setting based on Gerhardt's text on the traditional melody of the Quem pastores comes from Max Reger (from 12 German sacred chants ). Gerhardt's text is occasionally underlaid with a choral movement by Michael Praetorius (1571–1621). A complete new setting is by Ernst Pepping (from the song book based on poems by Paul Gerhardt, No. 7, 1945/46).

text

First printed in 1667 Standard version today (EG 39)

Come and let us honor Christ /
turn our hearts and senses to him:
Sing joyfully / let us hear you,
dear people of Christendom.

Sin and hell may grieve /
death and Teuffel may be ashamed:
We / who accept our
hey throw away all grief.

See / what has God given?
His son for everlasting life.
This can and will lift us
from suffering into heavenly joy.

His soul is weighed us:
love and favor drew him
us / the Satanas deceived
To visit from above.

Jacob's star has risen /
S [t] ills the longing desire /
Breaks the head of the old snakes
And destroys the kingdom of hell.

Our Kercker / since we were sitting /
And with worries without crowds /
We can get our own heart /
It is divided and we are free.

O thou most blessed hour /
Since we are from Hertzengrunde /
Believe / and
thank you with our mouths / O little Jesus.

Most beautiful child in the stable
Be friendly to us / bring us all / there
/ there
the angel army exalts you with a sweet sound !

Come and let us honor Christ, turning our
hearts and minds to him;
sing happily, let yourselves be heard,
dear people of Christendom.

Sin and hell may be grieved,
death and the devil may be ashamed;
we who accept our salvation give
up all sorrow.

See what God has given:
his Son for everlasting life.
He can and wants to lift us
out of suffering into heaven's joy.

His soul is
dear to us, love and favor drew him to visit
us, whom Satan has deceived,
from above.

Jacob's star has risen,
satisfies the longing,
breaks the head of the old serpents
and destroys the kingdom of hell.






O you blessed hour,
when we
believe this from the bottom of our hearts and
thank you with our mouths , O little Jesus.

Most beautiful child in the stable,
be kind to us, bring us all
there, because
the angel army exalts you with a sweet sound .

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  1. ↑ Johann Georg Ebeling: Pauli Gerhardi Spiritual Prayer: Consisting of one hundred and twenty songs. The Fifth Dozen Spiritual Devotional Songs. Christoph Runge, Berlin 1667, p. 136 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Johann Friedrich Bachmann (ed.): Paulus Gerhardts spiritual songs: historical-critical edition . Oehmigke, Berlin 1866, p. 279–280 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ First print 1667, p. 136 , p. 137
  4. ↑ Text version based on: Evangelical hymn book . Edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Bavaria and Thuringia. 2nd Edition. Evangelischer Presseverband für Bayern, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-583-12100-7 , p. 91. The sixth stanza is not printed on the ground floor .