Grant, Holy Ghost, that We Behold

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Translator: F. Samuel Janzow

F. Samuel Janzow was Professor of English at Concordia University Chicago from 1954 to 1980. NNM Go to person page >

Author: Bartholomäus Ringwaldt

Bartholomew Ringwaldt was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in 1530, and was a Lutheran pastor at Langfield, in Prussia, where he died, 1598. His hymns resemble Luther's in their simplicity and power. Several of them were written to comfort himself and others in the sufferings they endured from famine, pestilence, fire and floods. In 1581, he published "Hymns for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole Year." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line: Grant, Holy Ghost, that we behold
Title: Grant, Holy Ghost, that We Behold
German Title: Gott Heilger Geist hilf uns mit Grund
Translator: F. Samuel Janzow
Author: Bartholomäus Ringwaldt
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 1982
Copyright: © 1982 Concordia Publishing House

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