Morning shine of eternity

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Dawn of Eternity is a hymn from the 17th century. The text of the original 7 stanzas comes from Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636–1689) and was set to music around 1690 for house devotions. However, a second melody from the Halle songbook from 1704 has prevailed .

The song quickly found its way into Protestant church services, while it was not widely used in Catholic parishes until 1930. In both denominations it is also sung as Christ and the morning song.

song lyrics

Rosenroth's first stanza is almost unchanged in use, while the other verses vary depending on the denomination and intended use. In the following the beginning of the song in the original:

Morning glory of eternity
Light from inexhaustible light
Send us
your rays to face this morning time :
And drive away
our night through your power .

The overcast darkness
must fly away from your gleam, Who climbed the little world
through Adam's apple-bite
:
That we, Lord, be
blessed through your appearance .

and in today's usage (from God's praise no.84, 2nd stanza by Maria Luise Thurmair 1969)

Morning
shine of eternity, light from the uncreated light,
send us
your rays to face this morning time ,
and drive away
our night through your power .

Find us home with your strength,
O you rising from on high,
that sin may be bitter imprisonment
and misery of doubt.
Give us comfort and confidence
through your light.

Religious statement

The " morning shine" of the sun rising for all eternity allegorically refers to Jesus Christ , who as the Son of God ("light from the inexhaustible light") is supposed to drive away the night. Verse 2 varies the parable and relates the darkness to sin or inheritance . The following stanzas (not listed here) ask for a godly life, but do not focus on ethics , as they do today , but on spiritual goods. The stanzas 6 and 7 sing of the “sun of grace” (Christ), which will also illuminate the hereafter for believers .

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