Book Title: Pious addresses of the heart to God wherein is shown its departure from and return to God in forty seven divine emblems illustrated with copper plates / By a Private Hand.

Author: Private hand

Image Title: The Taking Away of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Hosea 4 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts two demons drinking from the heart of a person while another angelic figure aglow with a nimbus looks on. A spilled vessel of wine sits at the demons’ feet, and the Latin motto ABLATIO CORDIS, which translates “the taking away of the heart,” titles the image accompanied by the text of Hosea 4:11. The engravers initials, W.M., appear in the bottom right-hand corner. This is the second in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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