Book Title: Des menschen begin, midden en einde : vertoonende het kinderlyk bedryf en aanwasch in eenenvyftig konstige figuuren, met goddelyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen / door Joannes Luiken ; met het leven van den autheur

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Switch

Scripture Reference:

• Proverbs 1 (further images / scripture text)

Description: A mother threatens to punish her child with the switch. 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 Proverbs 1:7-9 and Hebrews 12:4-11.

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Motto:
It’s better that Friendship strikes,
Than that the Enemy speaks kindly.

Poem:
When the little Child is naughty, he must suffer,
Being chastised by his Parents,
But that doesn’t happen out of hate;
Likewise the old child must accept,
That the Lord’s hand strikes out of love,
So that he is not corrupted by evil.

(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)

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