The hymn beginning:
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress:
’Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head,
was written by Zinzendorf, whose culture and piety appear so
conspicuously in the more than two thousand hymns which came
from his pen. It was suggested by a picture in the Düseldorf
Gallery, “Ecce Homo,” representing Jesus crowned with thorns.
From the pathetic face above he turned to the legend beneath:
“All this I have done for thee; what hast thou for me?” The
vision and the question led him to adopt for his life motto: “I
have but one passion, and that is He, and only He.” (Text.)
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=Christ’s Fulness=--See FULNESS, CHRIST’S.