XII.

Antipathia amoris
et mortis.

Iob 10.
Paucitas dierum meorum
finietur breui.[Bible

, Job 10:20]

Seneca.
Iisdem quibus viuimus mo-
mentis deficimus, hunc ipsum
quem agimus diem cum mor-
te diuidimus.

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Iob 10.
Paucitas dierum meorū finietur breui.[Bible

, Job 10:20]

Constituisti terminos qui preteriri nō potuerunt.[Bible

, Job 14:5]

Las! peu de temps borne le cours,
De l’entresuitte de nos iours.

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[55] ↓

Antipathie de l’amovr
et la mort.

L’Amour a beau suggerer tes des-
seins,
Veu que la mort les fait reußir vains,
Et qu’on ne sçait, qui des deux est plus
fort:
Car si la mort n’a rien qui ne luy cede,
Rien contre Amour ne peut trouuer re-
mede:
L’un & l’autre est ineuitable sort.

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Remake of image, different motto, nimbus given to Christ-child, in: Monitio Amoris [19] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629)) [Compare]
Choice between Christ's yoke and the wordly life leading to death in:Rectum judicium [4] (in: Georgette de Montenay/Anna Roemer Visscher, Cent emblemes chrestiens (c. 1615)) [Compare]

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Monitio Amoris [19] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
Rectum judicium [4] (in: Georgette de Montenay/Anna Roemer Visscher, Cent emblemes chrestiens (c. 1615))

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Sacred love is pulling the soul away from Death, represented as a skeleton with a crown, an hourglass and a large arrow

hourglass [23U22]
leading someone by the hand or wrist [31A25432]
gripping someone by the shoulder [31A2545]
index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552]
life versus death [31E5]
symbols of Death [31F1]
Death as skeleton [31F26]
crown (symbol of sovereignty) [44B191]
archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A7(+4)]
Conflict; 'Contrasto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE3(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(ANTIPATHIA AMORIS ET MORTIS)]

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Antipathia amoris et mortis. [12]

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