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 Whip

Scripture Reference:

• Isaiah 29 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Two youths crack their whips, while a woman looks out over the bottom of her Dutch door, while restraining her little boy. A couple comments on this scene. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing this emblem (Pieter Sluiter etched it) and for composing the brief poem that accompanied it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Isa 29:13-14; Jer 7:3-4; 1 Tim 6:20-21 and James 1:26-27.

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Motto:
A crack that bears its fruit,
Overcomes many fruitless cracks.

Poem:
He cracks well, so that one hears it loudly,
Yet drives nothing forward with it:
So also is the life of many Old Ones:
With much chatter and clamor,
And Flesh and Blood, that portly Animal
Is not driven to Heaven.

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

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