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With force of arms we nothing can, Full soon were we down-ridden; But for us fights the proper man, Whom God himself hath bidden. Ask ye, who is the same? Christ Jesus is His name, The Lord Zebaoth’s Son, He, and no other one, Shall conquer in the battle.
With force of arms we nothing can, Full soon were we down-ridden; But for us fights the proper man, Whom God himself hath bidden. Ask ye, who is the same? Christ Jesus is His name, The Lord Zebaoth’s Son, He, and no other one, Shall conquer in the battle.
Approximate author period: c. 1514 AD · renaissance
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- Martin Luther
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- Approximate author period: c. 1514 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 118 · printed citation: Martin Luther · subject: CHRIST—CHRISTMAS
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