O König aller Ehren
O König aller Ehren. Martin Behm* (1557-1622). This fine hymn for the Epiphany comes from Behm’s Centuria precationeum Rhythmicarum (Wittenberg, 1606), where it was entitled ‘Am Tage Epiphaniae, oder der Erscheinung Christi, Aus dem Matth. 2. Vom Reich Jesu Christi’. It had six stanzas, all of which are found in EG. The reference to Matthew 2: 1-12 is particularly evident in verse 2; the remainder of the hymn is a development from this, as in a...
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