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 Flight of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Hosea 7 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a winged angel gazing at a jester situated among a pile of worldly possessions and accompanied by a demon pointing to numbers on a document. The jester’s heart is absent from his person lying in the background, and the image is titled with the Latin CORDIS FUGA, which translates to the “flight of the heart.” The text of Hosea 7:11 accompanies the fourth emblem in a series of 47 published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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