Theodore Brown Hewitt · 92 of 194
263: Jesu, allerliebster Bruder.
Jesu, allerliebster Bruder.--(Goed. 263.)
Based on Johann Arndt's Paradiszgärtlein, 1, 33, 92. It appeared in Crü. Praxis, 1661, no. 374.
English Version:
A complete translation by J. Kelly, 1867, p. 112. The translator has well rendered a hymn of rather unusual difficulty of interpretation in a foreign tongue.
An unavoidable weakening by translation appears in the last stanza: