The French hymn À toi la gloire O Ressuscité and its English translation Thine Be the Glory use the same tune.

[1] He knew the music as "Seht, er kommt, mit Preis gekrönt", a chorus from Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus.

[1] Handel had first composed it in 1747 for the oratorio Joshua, and added it to Judas Maccabaeus in a revised version in 1751, as See, the Conquering Hero Comes.

[2] The hymn was first published in Hamburg in 1826 in the collection Christliche, liebliche Lieder by Louise Reichardt, Raumer's sister-in-law, and assigned to the Entry into Jerusalem, which at the time had the same prescribed readings as the first Sunday of Advent.

Finally, the third stanza, with the text of the first, is sung by four choral parts and a rich basso continuo in dramatic development.