Jesu, thy blood and righteousness

Jesu, thy blood and righteousness. Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf* (1700-1760), translated by John Wesley* (1703-1791). Wesley found Zinzendorf’s ‘Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit’ in the 1739 Appendix to Das Gesang-Buch der Gemeine in Herrnhut (1735). His free translation was published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), with the title ‘The Believer’s Triumph. From the German’: Jesu, Thy blood and righteousnessMy beauty are, my glorious dress:Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,With joy shall I lift up my head. Zinzendorf’s 33 4-line stanzas were shortened to 24, omitting stanzas 5, 11, 13, 22, 23, 26, 27 and 28, and conflating stanzas 24 and 25 to make stanza 19 of the translation. It was...

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