Nun sich der Tag geendet hat

Nun sich der Tag geendet hat. Gerhard Tersteegen* (1697-1769). First published in Tersteegen’s Geistliches Blumen-Gärtlein, Drittes Büchlein (Book III) (1745 edition) as a hymn suitable (with alternative words) for morning or evening worship. It was entitled ‘Morgens oder Abends Opffer’ (‘Morning or evening sacrifice’): it began ‘Wann sich die Sonn erhebet’. It is used as an evening hymn in the ‘Abend’ section of EG (EG 478). The text is taken from stanza 6 onwards, which begins ‘Nun sich der Tag/ die Nacht geendet hat’. It moves back to stanza 5, ‘Die Zeit ist wie verschencket’, to make EG stanza 2, and then proceeds to the end (stanzas 7-9 of the original text, stanzas 3-5 in EG). In 1745...

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