The Little Child Fallen
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Little Child Fallen
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 73 (further images / scripture text)
Description: Outside the front door, the fallen child reaches for the mother who rushes with extended arms to pick her up. 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 73:21-28; Isaiah 59:1-2, 65:2; and 2 Corinthians 1:10.
Motto:
There is an outstretched hand,
To our Childlike state.
Poem:
When the little Child now, already walks alone,
So he often tumbles down,
Yet is quickly lifted up again:
O God, How thou hast our Soul
That in her course so often fell,
Also often given a hand.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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