Eternal depth of Love Divine

Eternal depth of Love Divine. Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf* (1700-1760), translated by John Wesley* (1703-1791). Zinzendorf’s ‘Du ewiger Abgrund der seligen Liebe’ was written in 1726 for the birthday of his friend Graf Henkel of Oberberg on 21 September. It was published in Zinzendorf’s Sammlung geistlicher und lieblicher Lieder (Second Edition, 1728), and then in Das Gesang-Buch der Gemeine in Herrnhut (1735), where Wesley would have found it. His translation was first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), entitled ‘God with us. From the German’: Eternal Depth of Love Divine  In Jesu, God-with-Us, display’d,How bright thy beaming Glories shine!  How wide thy healing Streams are...

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