The Butcher
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Butcher
Scripture Reference:
- Proverbs 7 (further images / scripture text)
Description: In the butcher shop, one butcher is in the process of slaughtering a cow while a second sharpens his knife; a cow waits outside and slaughtered pigs hang from a pole just outside the shop. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing this emblem and for creating the motto and poem that follow. Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Proverbs 7:22.
Motto:
Unthinking
Pays no heed.
Poem:
The beast steps in his mate’s blood,
And doesn't know to fear nor avoid:
Like the unthinking mind,
Although its nearest dies at its side,
And it sees an evil fruit,
It still does not take flight.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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