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 Covetousness of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 61 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a person placing his or her heart in a chest full of riches as both a demon and an angel look on. The image is titled with the Latin CORDIS AVARITIA, which translates “the Covetousness of the heart,” accompanied by the text of Psalm 61:11. This is the seventh in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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