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 Dies

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 39 (further images / scripture text)

Description: The father lies on his deathbed, surrounded by his family, including a young child and an infant held by her mother. Through the open door other family members can be seen gathered in an antechamber. 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 39:4-5, 90:10-12; and 1 Peter 1:24-25.

---

Motto:
The Beginning and the End came,
Well to him who took the best with him.

Poem:
The Man grew from a little Child,
With troubles and hardships,
And at the end comes Death,
With which all is cut off,
Except what the worthy Soul
Kept for itself through the fear of God.

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

---

.

Click here for additional images available from this book.

Request a high-resolution file (fees apply)

Rights Statement: The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.
Rights Status: No Copyright - United States
Pitts Theology Library provides copyright information as a courtesy and makes no representation about copyright or other legal status of materials in the Digital Image Archive.