Du großer Schmerzensmann

Du großer Schmerzensmann. Adam Thebesius* (1596-1652). This is a Passion-tide hymn (‘Thou great man of sorrows’) published in Passionale Melicum, Das ist: Außerlesene Geist- und Trostreiche Betrachtungen deß allerschmertzlichsten Leydens und Todes unsers Einigen Heylandes und Erlösers Jesu Christi (‘Exceptional spiritual and comfort-full considerations of the all-sorrowful sufferings and death of our only Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ’), edited by Martin Janus (Görlitz, 1663). This hymn was in a section, ‘Dancklieder vor Jesus Leyden und Tod’ (‘Thanksgivings for the suffering and death’), with the title ‘Bitte um die Frucht des Leidens Jesu’ (‘Prayer on the consequence of the sufferings...

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