The Little Child Fallen
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Little Child Fallen
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 73 (further images / scripture text)
Description: This image has been misplaced here (it is correctly placed on p. 29 of Luiken's book, hence the second image after this), and so the image title, poem, and Scripture texts belong to another image, which shows, outside the front door, the fallen child reaching for the mother who rushes with extended arms to pick her up. 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 Psalm 73:21-28; Isaiah 59:1-2, 65:2; and 2 Corinthians 1:10.
Motto:
There is an outstretched hand,
To our Childlike state.
Poem:
When the little Child now, already walks alone,
So he often tumbles down,
Yet is quickly lifted up again:
O God, How thou hast our Soul
That in her course so often fell,
Also often given a hand.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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