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: Man Retired

Scripture Reference:

• 1 Timothy 6 (further images / scripture text)

Description: A bearded old man, sitting on a stone bench, shows the page of a book to a young child and his mother in front of him. In the left back ground several workmen are in the process of building a house. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing this emblem (etched by Pieter Sluiter [1675-1713]) and for composing the brief poem that accompanied it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are 1 Timothy 6:5-9 and 1 John 2:15-17.

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Motto:
If life is trouble and sorrow,
Well to him who looks to a better one.

Poem:
When Man has arrived,
At a state in which the labor
Of support is taken over,
To merely pass through Time;
What fruit will all his troubles bear?
If he doesn’t act according to God’s pleasure.

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

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