Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn
Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn. Elisabeth Cruciger (Creutziger)* (ca. 1500-1535).
This hymn is from Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbuchlein (Erfurt, 1524), and Johann Walter*’s Geystliche gesangk Buchleyn (Wittenberg, 1524), entitled ‘Eyn Lobsangk von Christo’. In some later books it is ‘Ein geistlich liedt von Christo, Elisabet Creutzigerin’. Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied III. pp. 46-7, gives four texts of this hymn. It had five 7-line stanzas, beginning:
Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, Christ is the only son of God Vaters in Ewigkeit, the father eternall, aus seim Herzen entsprossen, we have in Jesse found this rod...
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