The Child Elderly
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Child Elderly
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 27 (further images / scripture text)
Description: Spectators watch a funeral procession that is passing in the background. 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 Psalm 27:9-11; John 1:10-13; 1 Peter 1:17; and 1 John 3:1-3.
Motto:
He comes who comes, and goes who goes.
Fearing God is a permanent state.
Poem:
When now the Child becomes Aged,
His Parents will forsake him,
Since Death separates them from him:
Then must one hurry to become, with fear,
In time a child of God,
Who does not die in Eternity.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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