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Komm, beug' dich tief, mein Herz und Sinn

Komm, beug' dich tief, mein Herz und Sinn

Author: Gottfried Arnold
Published in 4 hymnals

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Author: Gottfried Arnold

Arnold, Gottfried, son of Gottfried Arnold, sixth master of the Town School of Annaberg in the Saxon Harz, born at Annaberg Sept. 5, 1666. His life was varied and eventful, and although much of it had little to do with hymnody from an English point of view, yet his position in German Hymnology is such as to necessitate an extended notice, which, through pressure of space, must be (typographically) compressed. After passing through the Town School and the Gymnasium at Gera, he matriculated in 1685 at the University of Wittenberg—where he found the strictest Lutheran orthodoxy in doctrine combined with the loosest of living. Preserved by his enthusiasm for study from the grosser vices of his fellows, turning to contemplate the lives of t… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Komm, beug' dich tief, mein Herz und Sinn
Author: Gottfried Arnold
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Komm beag' dich tief, mein Herz and Sinn. [Thanksgiving to Christ.] First published 1702, p. 549 sEhmann's ed. 1856, p. 194), in 9 stanzas of 6 lines. Included as No. 744 in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch 1705. Translated as "Ourselves, dear Lord, we now resign," from stanzas vii., ix., as stanzas iii., iv. of No. 695 in the Moravian Hymn Book 1801, (ed. 1849, No. 826)

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Davidisches Psalter-Spiel der Kinder Zions #d531

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Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.) #745

Gesangbuch zum Gebrauch der Evangelischen Bruedergemeinen #d294

Zionitischer Weyrauchs Huegel; oder, Weyrrhen Berg #d295

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