The Infant Waited On
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Infant Waited On
Scripture Reference:
- Isaiah 45 (further images / scripture text)
Description: The mother cares for her baby and keeps it warm, while sitting in front of the fire in a large basket especially made for this purpose. A second woman warms a cloth by the fire, while an older woman looks on. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Isaiah 45:21-22 and Jeremiah 31:20.
Motto:
The Impotent State,
Calls for a strong hand.
Poem:
The Infant would soon perish
If, by a helping hand,
It were not given total care:
We the Old would also succumb,
If the Origin of us all
Were not our Savior.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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