Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot

Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot.  Martin Luther* (1483-1546).  Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied III.15, prints this in twelve stanzas, with the title ‘Die zehen gebot Gottes, auff den thon, in gottes namen faren wir’. It was published in Eyn Enchiridion (Erfurt, 1524) and in Wittenberg in 1524 by Johann Walter* in Geystliche gesangk Buchlein, where it was the first hymn (Jenny, pp. 149-53). In 1533 it was number 11 in the Wittenberger Gemeindegesangbuch as ‘Die Zehen gepot Gottes lange’ (‘lange’ as opposed to ‘kurtz’, the short version, ‘Mensch, wiltu leben seliglich’* (Jenny, p. 329).  The twelve stanzas are printed, with the original tune, and with ‘Kyrieleis’, in EG, in the...

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