Jesus lebt, mit ihm auch ich
Jesus lebt, mit ihm auch ich. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert* (1715-1769).
This is the better known of two Easter hymns, ‘Osterlieder’, in Gellert’s Geistliche Oden und Lieder (Leipzig, 1757) (the other is ‘Erinnre dich, mein Geist, erfreut’). This one is in six stanzas, each of which ends with ‘Diese ist meine Zuversicht’ (‘This is my confidence’), with a final verse triumphantly addressing God: ‘Herr, Herr, meine Zuversicht’. It rapidly became popular and has remained so: all six stanzas are in EG (115).
It was faithfully translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox* in her Sacred Hymns from the German (1841) as ‘Jesus lives! No longer now’, with a final line of each verse ‘This shall be my...
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