Book Title: Des menschen begin, midden en einde : vertoonende het kinderlyk bedryf en aanwasch in eenenvyftig konstige figuuren, met goddelyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen / door Joannes Luiken ; met het leven van den autheur

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Marble

Scripture Reference:

• Proverbs 12 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Three boys play marbles under a tree, as two men watch and comment on this game. In the left background some other children are playing a game. 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 Pvb 12:7-8; Matt 6:19-21; and 1 Tim 6:17-19.

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Motto:
Small Things are for the Child,
What is he then, who loves the earth?

Poem:
The Marble is the little Lad’s Treasure,
As if made of Gold and Silver,
The Treasure of the childish old one:
Who with the loftier Mind,
With his Bag full of money and goods,
Is regarded as a child.

(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)

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