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Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika

Publication Date: 1919 Publisher: Der Forenede Kirkes Forlag Publication Place: Minneapolis Editors: M. B. Landstad; Johannes Nilssøn Skaar

Author: Martin Rinchart; Anonymous Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Nu takker alle Gud Med Hjerte, Mund og Hænder, Som overflødigt Gods Os uforskyldt tilsender, Som alt fra Moders Liv Paa os har naadig tænkt, Og al Nødtørstighed Saa rigeligen skjænkt! 2 Den evig rige Gud Han os fremdeles unde Sjæls Glæde, Ro og Fred, Han give, at vi kunde I Naade altid staa Hos ham, og ved vor Bøn Faa Hjælp i Nød og Død, Tilsidst en Naade-Løn! 3 Gud Fader og Guds Søn Ske evig Pris og Ære, Den værdig Helligaand Derhos høilovet være! Velsignet Guddom, som Forbliver, var og er, Vi dig id Ydmyghed Vort Takke-Offer bær! Topics: Slutningssalmer; Closing Hymns; Sædvanlige Salmer til Høimesse; High Mass; Søndag efter Jul Til Aftengudstjeneste; Sunday after Christmas; Nyaarsdag Til Høimesse; New Years Day; Tjuesjete Søndag efter Trefoldiheds Fest Til Aftengudstjeneste; Twenty sixth Sunday after Trinity Sunday

Min Sjæl, min Sjæl, lov Herren

Author: Johs. Gramann; Landstad Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Min Sjæl, min Sjæl, lov Herren, Og alt, hvad i mig er, hans Navn! Min Sjæl, min Sjæl, lov Herren, Glem ingen Ting af alt hans Gavn! Han, som din Synd udsletter Og læger dine Saar; Han, som dit Liv opretter, Naar du til Døden gaar; Han, som ny Kraft dig sender, Gjør Alderdommen ung; Han, som dig bær paa Hænder, Naar Tiden falder tung! 2 Sit Ord han lod os kjende, Og hans Velgjerninger vi ved. Barmhjertig uden Ende Og rig paa evig Miskundhed Han lader Vreden fare For dem, som gjøre Bod, Vil ingen Salve spare For Sorg og saaret Mod. Med Naaden sin og Trøsten Har han vor Angest stilt, Som Vesten er fra Østen Langt Synden fra os skilt. 3 Som sig en kjærlig Fader Miskunder over sine Smaa, Saa gjør vor Gud, og lader Op Naaden ny hver Morgen gaa. Han veed, vi ere ringe, Kun Støv og Aske vist, Ret som et Græs i Enge, En Urt, sin Blomst har mist. Naar Veiret hart paafalder, Da findes det ei mer, Saa gaar det med vor Alder, Vort Engelight er nær. 4 Men Guds Miskund alene Den bliver fast i Evighed Hos dem, ham trolig tjene, Hans kjære Børn og Menighed. Fra Himlens høie Sæde Han holder hellig Vagt. I Engle, som med Glæde Er Vidner til hans Magt. I Stærke, I, som fare At føre ud hans Bud, Og Jordens hele Skare Stat op og lover Gud! Topics: Slutningssalmer; Closing Hymns; Sædvanlige Salmer til Høimesse; High Mass; Confessions; Skriftemaal; Søndag efter Jul Til Høimesse -Til Tredje Teksxtækkes Evangelium; Sunday after Christmas; Søndag Seksagesima Til Aftengudstjeneste - Til Sekund Tekstrækkes Epistel; Sexagesima Sunday; Marias Bebudelses Dag Til Høimesse -Til Tredje Teksxtækkes Evangelium; Annunciation; Fjortende Søndag efter Trefoldiheds Fest Til Høimesse; Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday Scripture: Psalm 103

Herre Jesus Krist!

Author: Hans C. Sthen Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Herre Jesus Krist! Min Frelser du est, Til dig haaber jeg alene; Jeg tror paa dig, Forlad ikke mig Saa elendelig, Mig trøster dit Ord det rene. 2 Alt efter den Vilje, O Herre, mig stille, At jeg dig trolig kan dyrke; Du est min Gud, Lær mig dine Bud, Al min Tid ud Du mig i Troen styrke! 3 Nu vil jeg være, O Jesus kjære, Hvor du mig helft vil have, Jeg lukker dig ind I mit Hjerte og Sind, O Herre min, Med al din Naad og Gave! 4 Saa inderlig Forlader jeg mig Alt paa din Gunst og Naade, O Jesus sød, Hjælp mig af Nød For din haarde Død, Frels mig af alskens Vaade! 5 Al min Tillid Nu og al Tid Har jeg til dig, o Herre! Du est min Trøst, Dit Ord og Røst I al min Brøst Min Hjertens Glæde mon være. 6 Naar Sorgen mig trænger, Efter dig mig forlænger, Du kan mig bedst husvale; Den, du vil bevare, Han er uden Fare, Du mig forsvare, Dig monne jeg mig befale! 7 Nu veed jeg vist, Herre Jesus Krist, Du vil mig aldrig forlade; Du siger jo saa: Kald du mig paa, Hjælp skal du faa I al din Sorg og Vaade. 8 O give det Gud, Vi efter dine Bud Kunde os saa skikke tilsammen, At vi med dig Evindelig I Himmerig Kunde leve i Salighed! Amen. Topics: Slutningssalmer; Closing Hymns; Sædvanlige Salmer til Høimesse; High Mass; Confessions; Skriftemaal; Fjerde Søndag I Advent Til Aftengudstjeneste - Til Tredje Tekstrækkes Epistel; Fourth Sunday in Advent; Første Søndag efter Hellig 3 Kongers Dag Til Aftengudstjeneste; First Sunday after Epiphany; Tredje Søndag efter Hellig 3 Kongers Dag Til Høimesse -Til Sekund Tekstrækkes Evangelium; Third Sunday after Epiphany; Fjerde Søndag efter Hellig 3 Kongers Dag Til Aftengudstjeneste - Til Tredje Tekstrækkes Epistel; Fourth Sunday after Epiphany; Second Sunday in Lent; Tredje Søndag i Faste Til Høimesse; Third Sunday in Lent; Femte Søndag efter Trefoldiheds Fest Til Høimesse -Til Tredje Teksxtækkes Evangelium; Fifth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Hengivelse til Jesus; Devotion to Jesus; Secund Søndag I Faste Til Høimesse -Til Sekund Tekstrækkes Evangelium

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I Jesu Navn

Author: Johan Fredriksen Hymnal: SLKA1919 #1 (1919) Lyrics: 1 I Jesu Navn Skal al vor Gjerning ske, Om det skal komme os till noget Gavn, Endes ei med Spot og Ve. Al den Idræt, Som begyndes i det, God Lykke og Fremgang faar, Indtil den Maalet naar, At det Gud til Ære sker, Og dernæst til os henser, Hvori al vor Velfærd staar. 2 I Jesu Navn Vi ville prise Gud, Han Lykke give vil dertil og Gavn, Efterdi det er hans Bud, Han haver gjort Store Ting ved sit Ord, Og ved sin Arm saa sterk Høipriselige Verk, Thi hør os i allen Tid Hannem prise med stor Flid; Hvo, sam frygter Gud, det merk! 3 I Jesu Navn Vi leve vil og dø. Om vi da leve, vorder det vort Gavn, Om vi dø, vort Gavn maa ske. I Jesu Navn, Ham till Ær', os til Gavn, Skal vi igjen opstaa, Og i Guds Rige gaa, Hvor vi da med Lyst og Fryd Skulle se Guds Aasyn blid, Og den evig' Ære faa. Topics: Indgangssalmer; Entrance Hymns; Konfirmation; Confirmation; Nyaarsdag Til Høimesse; New Years Day; Femte Søndag efter Hellig 3 Kongers Dag Til Aftengudstjeneste; Fifth Sunday after Epiphany; Gudsfrygts Velsignelse Languages: Norwegian

Herre, Gud Fader, du vor høi'ste Trost!

Author: Landstad Hymnal: SLKA1919 #2 (1919) Lyrics: 1 Herre, Gud Fader, du vor høi'ste Trøst! Du er vor glæde og vor Lyst; Vor Bøn lad komme for dig ind: O, spar os og forlad os al vor Synd! MisKunde dig ovr os! 2 Kriste, Guds Søn, vor Vei og sande Lys, Du Hyrde god til Himlens Hus, Du alle Kristnes Liv og Raad, Til Salighed os given, men forsmaad! Miskunde dig aver os! 3 Herre, Gud Helligaand, i Evighed Vær hos os, og vor Sjæl bered At Gud vi søge, Naade faa, I vore Synder lad os ei forgaa! Miskunde dig over os! Topics: Indgangssalmer; Entrance Hymns; Almindelig Bededag Til Morgengudstjeneste og Høimesse; Ordinary Prayer Day; Trosbekjendelsen; Creed Languages: Norwegian

Nu bede vi den Helligaand

Author: Martin Luther; Landstad Hymnal: SLKA1919 #3 (1919) Lyrics: 1 Nu bede vi den Helligaand Frem for alt om Troen ret og sand, At vi den bevare Til vor sidste Ende, Naar vi skulle fare Hjem fra al Elende. Kyrie eleison! 2 Du vœrdig' Lys, giv os dit Skin, Led os ret til Jesus Kristus ind! At vi maatte trygge Hos vor Frelser kjære Blive, bo og bygge, Og i Raaden være. Kyrie eleison! 3 Du søde Aand, send Kjærlighed Brændende i vore Hjerte ned! At vi med hverandre, Udi Kristus fundne, Maa i eet Sind vandre, Kjærlig sammenbundne. Kyrie eleison! 4 Du Trøster bedst i al vor Nød, Hjælp, vi frygte Djævel ei og Død! At ei Modet brister Og vor Sjæl forsager, Naar den onde Frister Alt vort Liv anklager! Kyrie eleison! Topics: Indgangssalmer; Entrance Hymns; Sjette Søndag efter Paaske Til Aftengudstjeneste - Til Sekund Tekstrækkes Lektie; Sixth Sunday after Easter Languages: Norwegian

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Saint Augustine

354 - 430 Person Name: Augustin Hymnal Number: 465 Author of "Saa sandt jeg lever, siger Gud" in Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika St. Augustine, born in Africa; wrote six books on music, which were printed at Lyons, 1586, eleven hundred forty six years after his death, which took place A.D. 440. A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876

Johann Joseph Winckler

1670 - 1722 Person Name: Joh. Winkler Hymnal Number: 250 Author of "Kjæmp alvorlig nu, Guds Naade" in Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika Winckler, John Joseph, a German Pietist, was born at Luckau, in Saxony, December 23, 1670. He was at first a pastor at Magdeburg, then a chaplain in the Protestant army, accompanying the troops to Holland and Italy, and at length returned to Magdeburg and became chief minister of the cathedral. He was no less eminent for his mental culture than for his piety. He was a preacher and writer who had the courage of his convictions, and this quality is notably manifest in the hymn by him found in this collection. He died August 11, 1722. Shall I, for fear of feeble man 225 Hymn Writers of the Church Nutter ================================================================== Winckler, Johann Joseph, son of Gottfried Winckler, town clerk of Lucka, Sachse-Altenburg, was born at Lucka, Dec. 23, 1670. He became a student of Theology at the University of Leipzig, during the time when A. H. Francke and J. C. Schade were holding their Bible readings, and his sympathies henceforth were with the Pietistic movement. In 1692 he was appointed preacher to the St. George's Hospital at Magdeburg, and afternoon preacher at St. Peter's Church there. He became chaplain to the Prince Christian Ludwig regiment in 1695, and went with it to Holland and Italy. After the Peace of Ryswijk (Oct. 30, 1697) he made a tour in Holland and England. Returning to Magdeburg, he was appointed, in 1698, diaconus of the Cathedral, and in 1703 also inspector of the so-called Holzkreis. Finally, in 1714, he became chief preacher at the Cathedral, and in 1716, also Consistorialrath. He died at Magdeburg, Aug. 11, 1722 (Wetzel, iii. 437; Grischow-Kirchner Nachricht to Freylinghausen, p. 53; Koch, iv. 383; Blätter fur Hymnologie, 1888, p. 170, &c). Winckler was a man who had the courage of his opinions, and his hymn No. iv. below is a picture of the stand he was willing to make when conscience bade him. Not that he was fond of controversy, but rather the reverse. Twice however he raised considerable feeling against himself in Magdeburg, first by the position he took up against theatre going, and afterwards by his well-meant attempts to bring about a closer union between the Lutheran and Reformed churches in Prussia. But the opposition he encountered he bore patiently, and in the spirit of his hymn No. i. below. His hymns, some 27 in all appeared mostly in the Appendix to the 2nd edition. 1703 of H. G. Neuss’s Heb-Opfer, in Porst’s Gesang-Buch, Berlin, 1708,and in Freylinghausens Neues geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1714. They rank among the better productions of the earlier Pietistic writers, and are distinguished by firm faith, earnestness, and picturesqueness; but are somewhat lengthy and frequently in unusual metres. Those of Winckler's hymns which have passed into English are:— i. Meine Seele senket sich. Resignation. First published in the 1703 edition of Neuss's Heb-Opfer, p. 248, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled "Ps. 62 v. 1. My soul is still towards God." Repeated in Freylinghause, 1714, No. 511, and in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 714. It is a fine hymn on patient waiting upon God's will. Translated as:— Yea, my spirit fain would sink. In full, by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser., 1855, p. i98. In her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 138, it is greatly altered, beginning "In Thy heart and hands, my God"; and this form is No. 419 in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. Another translation is: "Wearily my spirit sinketh," by Mrs. Sevan, 1858, p. 65. ii. 0 süsser Stand, o selig Leben . Christian Simplicity. In Porst's Gesang-Buch, 1708, p. 519 (1711, No. 642), in 8 stanzas of 8 lines, repeated inFreylinghausen, 1714, No. 322, and in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 331. The translations are:— 1. 0 sweet condition, happy Living. This, omitting st. iii., is No. 658 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. 2. 0 blest condition, happy living. This is a translation of st. i., ii., vi., viii., based on the 1754 version, as No. 441 in theMoravian Hymn Book, 1789 (1886, No. 584). iii. Ringe recht, wenn Gottes Gnade. Christian Warfare. A thoughtful and powerful hymn, included as No. 359 in Unverfälschter Liedersegen , 1851, No. 336. Wetzel, iii. 437, says it was written as a hymn on the three favourite Scripture passages of Ursula Maria Zorn, of Berlin, and was first published at the end of her funeral sermon by Johann Lysius, pastor of St. George's Church, Berlin. Thus stanzas i.-v. are founded on St. Luke xiii. 24; vi.-xv. on Philipp. ii. 12; and xvi.-xxiii. on Gen. xix. 15-22. The translations in common use are: 1. Strive, when thou art call'd of God. This is a good translation of st. i., iii.-vii., xii., xiii., xv., xvi. by Miss Winkworth, in her Lyra Germanica, 1st Ser., 1855, p. 46. Repeated, abridged, in Kennedy, 1863; the Harrow School Hymn Book, 1866, and Rugby School Hymn Book, 1876. 2. Strive aright when God doth call thee. This is a translation of st. i., iii., iv., xii., xiii., xv., xvi. by Miss Winkworth, founded on her Lyra Germanica version, as No. 128 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. Repeated in the Marlborough College Hymn Book, 1869. 3. Thou must wrestle, when God's mercy. This is a tr. of st. i., ii., x., xxii., signed E. T. L., as No. 230, in Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864. Another translation is: “Wrestle on! for God is pleading," by Miss Burlingham in the British Herald, Sept., 1865, p. 137. iv. Sollt ich aus Furcht vor Menschenkindern. Adherence to Christ. A hymn on Constancy, and against cowardice and time-serving. In Porst's Gesang-Buch, 1708, p. 1133 (1711, No. 701), in 17 stanzas of 4 lines. Repeated in Freylinghausen, 1714, No. 541 (entitled "For a Preacher"), in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen 1851, No. 658, &c. The translation in common use is:— Shall I for fear of feeble man. This is a vigorous translation in 10 stanzas (representing st. i.-iii., xii.-xv., xvii.; st. iv. being freely from vi., vii., and st. v. from viii., xi.), by J. Wesley in the Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1739 (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. i. p. 177). Included in full in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754 (1849, No. 875 abridged). In the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, stanzas i.—vii. were included as No. 270; stanzas viii.-x. being added in the edition of 1800 (1875, No. 279). The full form is in the Methodist New Congrational Hymn Book., 1863, and in Mercer's Church Psalter & Hymn Book 91857, and abridged in Mercer's Oxford edition, 1864; Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book,1866, and others. It is also found in the following forms:— (1) Awed by a mortal's frown, shall I (Wesley's st. ii.). In W. Carus Wilson's Gen. Psalter 1842. (2) Saviour of men, Thy searching eye (Wesley's at. vi.). In J. A. Latrobe's Psalms & Hymns, 1841, and various American collections. (3) Our Lives, our Blood, we here present (Wesley's st. ix. alt.). In M. Madan's Psalms & Hymns, 1760. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =========================== See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

348 - 410 Person Name: Aurel. Prudentius Hymnal Number: 528 Author of "Med Sorgen og Klagen hold Maade" in Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, "The Christian Pindar" was born in northern Spain, a magistrate whose religious convictions came late in life. His subsequent sacred poems were literary and personal, not, like those of St. Ambrose, designed for singing. Selections from them soon entered the Mozarabic rite, however, and have since remained exquisite treasures of the Western churches. His Cathemerinon liber, Peristephanon, and Psychomachia were among the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. A concordance to his works was published by the Medieval Academy of America in 1932. There is a considerable literature on his works. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion ============= Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens , with the occasional prefix of Marcus (cf. Migne, vol. lix. p. 593, and Dressel, p. ii. n), is the name of the most prominent and most prolific author of sacred Latin poetry in its earliest days. Of the writer himself we know nothing, or next to nothing, beyond what he has himself told us in a short introduction in verse to his works. From that source we learn that he was a Spaniard, of good family evidently, and that he was born A.D. 348 somewhere in the north of Spain, either at Saragossa, Tarragona, or Calahorra, but at which is left uncertain, by his applying the same expression to all, which if applied only to one would have fixed his place of birth. After receiving a good education befitting his social status he applied himself for some years to practising as a pleader in the local courts of law, until he received promotion to a judgeship in two cities successively:— "Bis legum moderanrine Frenos nobilium reximus urbium Jus civile bonis reddidimus, terruimus reos;" and afterwards to a post of still higher authority: "Tandem militiae gradu Evectum pietas principis extulit." Archbishop Trench considers this last to have been "a high military appointment at court," and such the poet's own words would seem to describe; but it may well be doubted whether a civilian and a lawyer would be eligible for such employment; in which case we may adopt the solution of the difficulty offered in the Prolegomena to our author's works (Migne, vol. lix. p. 601):— "Evectus indeest ad superiorem rnilitia? gradum, nimirum militia? civil is, palatinae, aut praesidialis, non bellicae, castrensis, aut cohortalis; nam ii qui officiis jure consultorum praesidum, rectorum et similium funguntur, vulgo in cod. Theod. militare et ad superiores militias ascendere dicuntur." It was after this lengthened experience at a comparatively early age of positions of trust and power that Prudentius, conscience-smitten on account of the follies and worldliness that had marked his youth and earlier manhood, determined to throw up all his secular employments, and devote the remainder of his life to advancing the interests of Christ's Church by the power of his pen rather than that of his purse and personal position. Accordingly we find that he retired in his 57th year into poverty and private life, and began that remarkable succession of sacred poems upon which his fame now entirely rests. We have no reason however to regard him as another St. Augustine, rescued from the "wretchedness of most unclean living" by this flight from the temptations and engrossing cares of official life into the calm seclusion of a wholly devotional leisure. He had probably rather learnt from sad experience the emptiness and vanity for an immortal soul of the surroundings of even the high places of this world. As he himself expresses it:— "Numquid talia proderunt Carnis post obitum vel bona, vel mala, Cum jam, quicquid id est, quod fueram, mors aboleverit?" and sought, at the cost of all that the world holds dear, those good things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. Beyond the fact of his retirement from the world in this way, and the fruits which it produced in the shape of his voluminous contributions to sacred poetry, we have no further information about our author. To judge from the amount he wrote, his life must have been extended many years after he began his new career, but how long his life was or where he died we are not told. Probably he died circa 413. His works are:— (1) Liber Cathemerinon. "Christian Day, as we may call it" W. S. Lilly, "Chapters in European History," vol. i. p. 208). (2) Liber Peristephanon. "Martyrs' Garlands" (id.). (3) Apotheosis. A work on the Divine Nature, or the Deification of Human Nature in Christ. (4) Hamartigenia. A treatise on the Origin of Sin, directed against the Marcionites. (5) Psychomachia or "The Spiritual Combat"-—an allegorical work. (6) Libri contra Symmachum. A controversial work against the restoration in the Senate House at Rome of the altar of Victory which Gratian had removed. Symmachus had petitioned Valentinian II. for its restoration in 384, but the influence of St. Ambrose had prevailed against him at that time. In 392 the altar was restored, but removed again by Theodosius in 394. After the death of the latter the attempt to restore it was renewed by Arcadius and Honorius, and it was at that time that Prudentius wrote his first book. The second (for there are two) was written in 405. Fague considers that the first may date in 395. (7) The Dittochseon = the double food or double Testament, is a wordy collection of 49 sets of four verses each, on Old and New Testament scenes. Of these different works the most important are the first two, and it is from them that the Liturgical hymns enumerated below have been chiefly compiled. The general character of Prudentius's writings it is not easy fairly to estimate, and to judge by the wholesale laudation he obtains from some of his critics, and the equally unsparing censure of others, his judges have so found it. In venturing upon any opinion upon such a subject, the reader must bear in mind the peculiar position in which the period at which he was writing found the poet. The poetry of classical Rome in all its exact beauty of form had long passed its meridian, and was being replaced by a style which was yet in its infancy, but which burst forth into new life and beauty in the hands of the Mediaeval hymnologists. Prudentius wrote before rhyming Latin verse was thought of, but after attention had ceased to be given to quantities. Under such circumstances it were vain to look for very finished work from him, and such certainly we do not find. But amidst a good deal of what one must confess is tasteless verbiage or clumsy rhetorical ornament-—however varied the metres he employs, numbering some 17—-there are also passages to be found, not unfrequently, of dramatic vigour and noble expression, which may well hold their own with the more musical utterances of a later date. He writes as a man intensely in earnest, and we may gather much from his writings concerning the points of conduct which were deemed the most important in Christian living at a time when a great portion of mankind were still the victims or slaves of a morality which, heathen at the best, was lowered and corrupted the more as the universality of its influence was more and more successfully challenged by the spread of the Gospel of Christ. If, there¬fore, we can scarcely go as far in our author's praise as Barth—-much given to lavish commendation—-who describes him as "Poeta eximius eruditissimus et sanctissimus scriptor; nemo divinius de rebus Christianis unquam scripsit"; or as Bentley—-not given to praise--who calls him the "Horace and Virgil of the Christians," we shall be as loath, considering under what circumstances he wrote, to carp at his style as not being formed on the best ancient models but as confessedly impure; feeling with Archbishop Trench that it is his merit that "whether consciously or unconsciously, he acted on the principle that the new life claimed new forms in which to manifest itself; that he did not shrink from helping forward that great transformation of the Latin language, which it needed to undergo, now that it should be the vehicle of truths which, were all together novel to it." (Sacred Latin Poetry, 1874, p. 121.) The reader will find so exhaustive an account of the various writings of Prudentius in the account given of him and them in Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, that it is only necessary in this work to refer very briefly to them as above. The poems have been constantly reprinted and re-edited, till the editor who produced the best edition we have of them, Albert Dressel (Leipsic, 1860), is able to say that his is the sixty-third. The use made of Prudentius's poems in the ancient Breviaries and Hymnaries was very extensive. In the form of centos stanzas and lines wore compiled and used as hymns; and it is mainly from these centos, and not from the original poems, that the translations into English were made. Daniel, i., Nos. 103-115, gives 13 genuine hymns as having been in use for "Morning," "Christmas," "Epiphany," "Lent," "Easter," "Transfiguration," "Burial," &c, in the older Breviaries. ….Many more which were used in like manner have been translated into English. When to these are added the hymns and those which have not been translated into English, we realise the position and power of Prudentius in the hymnody of the Church. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============== Prudentius, A. C, p. 915, ii. Two somewhat full versions of Prudentius are: (1) The Cathemerinon and other Poems of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in English Verse, Lond., Rivington, 1845; and (2) Translations from Prudentius. By Francis St. John Thackeray, M.A.. F.S.A. Lond., Bell & Sons, 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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