From: BSG     Aug 30, 2018

There is a real, live 7 (7-4-2) expanding to 8 by the bass in the second half of m. 9, alto and bass voices, a supertonic suspension under a fully-formed minor triad resolving to the tonic under it. Many sources advise against 7->8 resolves a bass down, while some sources say it can be found often in repertoire in spite of this. There's another in R/K # 241, "Meinen Jesum lass' ich nicht", m. 8, A under G major. There is one in BSG "Wer durch Liebe" at a key juncture (m.99) closing a sequence of bass suspensions (and m. 48).

From: BSG     Aug 30, 2018

This is one of the super-greats, closing the very, very great Passiontide Cantata BWV 159 (see https://BernardGreenberg.com/Scores/4998011 ). The paradox of the Cross is rarely more vivid, "Thy Suffering is to me pure joy", "Meine Seel' auf Rosen geht/wenn ich d'ran gedenke", whose bitter chromatic harmonies through Gb lead to an upward-feeling rise to "dem Himmel eine Stätt'" immediately thereafter.