Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again

A lamb goes uncomplaining forth To save a world of sinners

A lamb goes uncomplaining forth To save a world of sinners

Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676
Tune: AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON
ONE LICENSE: 87699
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: Recording

Piano/Organ

Eight Lenten Chorales for Manuals
Representative text cannot be shown for this hymn due to copyright.

Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676

Paul Gerhardt (b. Gräfenheinichen, Saxony, Germany, 1607; d. Lubben, Germany, 1676), famous author of Lutheran evangelical hymns, studied theology and hymnody at the University of Wittenberg and then was a tutor in Berlin, where he became friends with Johann Crüger. He served the Lutheran parish of Mittenwalde near Berlin (1651-1657) and the great St. Nicholas' Church in Berlin (1657-1666). Friederich William, the Calvinist elector, had issued an edict that forbade the various Protestant groups to fight each other. Although Gerhardt did not want strife between the churches, he refused to comply with the edict because he thought it opposed the Lutheran "Formula of Concord," which con­demned some Calvinist doctrines. Consequently, he was r… Go to person page >

^ top

Text Information

First Line: A lamb goes uncomplaining forth To save a world of sinners
German Title: Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld
Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676
Meter: P M
Source: Lutheran Book of Worship, tr., alt.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2006
Copyright: © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship, admin. Augsburg Fortress
^ top

Tune

AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON

The tune AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON was composed by Wolfgang Dachstein (b. Gffenburg an der Kinzig, Germany, 1487; d. Strasbourg, Germany, 1553) and published in the Strassburger Kirchenampt (1525), edited by Dachstein and his friend Matthaus Greiter. In that collection it was the setting for Dachste…

Go to tune page >


All tunes published with 'A lamb goes uncomplaining forth To save a world of sinners'^ top

Timeline

^ top

Instances

Instances (1 - 1 of 1)
Audio

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #340

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #340
Include 1 pre-1979 instance
All instances^ top
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.