Ich gruße dich am Kreuzesstamm
Ich gruße dich am Kreuzesstamm. Valentin Ernst Löscher* (1673-1749).
This was written in 1722, and published during Löscher’s time as a Lutheran pastor in the High Church at Dresden, in an Appendix of 1728 to Das Privilegirte Ordentliche und Vermehrte Dreßnische Gesang-Buch (1722). It was headed ‘Übung der Andacht, der Liebe, des Glaubens, der Hoffnung, und des Gehorsams unter dem Creutze Christi’ ('The practice of devotion, love, belief, hope, and obedience at the foot of the Cross') . It originally had six stanzas, shortened to a hymn of two stanzas in the Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch (1950). The original stanzas began (2) ‘Ich küsse dich’ (3) ‘Ich fasse dich, mein Löse-Geld’ (4) ‘Ich...
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