Let me be Thine for ever

Let me be Thine for ever. Nikolaus Selnecker* (1530/32- 1592), translated by Matthias Loy (1828-1915).  This is based on Loy’s translation of ‘Laß mich dein sein und bleiben’*, from Selnecker’s ‘Passio’, entitled Passio. Das Leiden und Sterben unsers Herrn Jesu Christi, aus den Vier Evangelisten (Wolfenbüttel, 1572). According to the Companion to the Hymns of LSB (Herl et al., 2019, p. 928, note to Hymn 659) Loy’s translation dates from 1863 in the Fourth Edition of A Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship (Columbus, Ohio). It was continued in The Lutheran Hymnal (Columbus, Ohio, 1880) (Polack, 1942, 1958, p. 239) and The Lutheran Hymnary (1913). It appeared thereafter in many...