The Child Has Grown Up
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Child Has Grown Up
Scripture Reference:
- Romans 12 (further images / scripture text)
Description: A young man and young woman stand in front of the mother, who is sitting with two small children on the stoop of the house, as a group of children are seen playing in the square. 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 Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 4:14; and 1 Peter 1:14-16.
Motto:
Only Virtuous nature,
Turns childhood into upright adulthood.
Poem:
When the Child is now grown up,
Child’s Play is no longer fitting,
But only what’s proper for a Man or a Woman:
Yet should he not devote himself,
To live according to God’s will,
Then he will continue to play with children.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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