The Little Child Cries
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Little Child Cries
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 3 (further images / scripture text)
Description: As a mother busily washes the dishes with her maid, she looks to her crying child who reaches for her with outstretch arms. 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 Ps 3:4, 33:20-22; Isa 30:18-19; and Matt 18:1-4.
Motto:
The Hammer that strikes the little chime,
Receives its answer in short time.
Poem:
When the little Child even raised his voice,
She, with Mother’s love, heard it,
So calls the Echo, dear little Child,
Like the echo from the words:
O Old One! Raise thy voice to God,
So thou dost also share the Child’s fate.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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