The Slingshot
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Slingshot
Scripture Reference:
- 1 Samuel 17 (further images / scripture text)
Description: Next to a small lake with a pair of swans, a youth is about to shoot a stone with his slingshot, while a couple comments on this scene set in an orchard. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem (Pieter Sluiter [1675-1713] finished the background) and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are 1 Sam 17:37; Rom 12:21; 1 Cor 9:25-27; James 4:7 and 1 Pet 5:8-11.
Motto:
He shoots in the right way,
He who conquers Evil with Good.
Poem:
Thus the stone flies fast,
Yet hits nothing but air:
So do many old Ones act, in their days:
For if one does not after God’s Heart,
In his way, become a David,
Then neither will Goliath be slain.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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