Es ist das Heil uns kommen her

Es ist das Heil uns kommen her. Paul Speratus* (1484-1551). First published in Etlich christlich lider Lobgesang un[d] Psalm (Wittenberg, 1524), the ‘Achtliederbuch’, with two other hymns by Speratus, who thus became Luther’s earliest collaborator in the writing of hymns. This hymn had fourteen 7-line stanzas (Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied III, pp. 31-2). It was entitled ‘Ein lied vom gesetz und glauben, gewaltigklich mit götlicher schrifft verlegt. Doctoris Pauli Sperati’ (‘A hymn of law and faith, powerfully furnished with God’s word’). It is found in EG in a text of nine stanzas, omitting stanzas 3 (‘Es war eyn falscher won darbey’, 4 (‘Nicht muglich war, die selbig art’), 9 (‘Es...

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