T' Leven dat ghij v neemt Door wanhoop helsch ghedreven
O onvermogen Mensch! kent ghij v niet weer geven.
De val van Adam (die noch aen ons allen hecht)
Mocht door sijn eijgen Cracht niet werden opgerecht.
T'en waer dat Cristus was tot onse heijl gebooren
Als Duijvels Slaven wij in sonden mosten smooren
En sterven Eeuwichlijck. Daerom was ons van nood
Goodts Soon: Die ons alleen kan vrijen van de Doot.

Cest homme vif s'est bien peu à mort mettre:
Ores est mort. qu'il se face reuvivre.
Adam pecha, & ne se peut remettre
En pureté: ains eut à peché suyuvre.
Ainsi nous tous, tant que Christ nous deliuvre,
Enfans d'Adam, tousiours souillés serions:
Serfs de peché, par lequel nous mourrions.
Hors Christ n'a rien, qui dure mort ne liuvre.

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Nate Patris summi, amissæque vnica vitæ
Spes, ostende tuæ, Christe, salutis opes.
Quid, nisi crudeli possim me perdere letho,
Nec tamen ad vitam vi remeare mea?

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Rise!

Son of the Father most high, and of a lost life
The only hope; show me, Christ, the riches of your salvation.
What other hope would there be, if I could not end my life by a cruel death,
Yet nonetheless could not return to life by my own power?.

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Literature

Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 994f

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Sources and parallels

Egyptian pyramid also in: In recessu nihil. [50] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627)) [Compare]
Egyptian pyramid also in: In recessu nihil. [49] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618)) [Compare]
Infant slain by arrow, lying under a broken tree trunk, with allusions to the fall of Adam in: [Ecce in iniquitatibus conceptus sum] [50] (in: anonymous, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1628)) [Compare]

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[Exiccatur foenum, et cadit flos] [49] (in: anonymous, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1628))
[Ecce in iniquitatibus conceptus sum] [50] (in: anonymous, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1628))
In recessu nihil. [49] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618))
In recessu nihil. [50] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))

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A dead man lying on the ground, holding the sword with which he has committed suicide

trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)]
obelisk, needle [25I153]
landscape with ruins [25I9]
lying figure [31A236]
sitting or lying with one leg stretched forward and the other leg drawn up [31A2626]
adult man [31D14]
violent death by sword (+ suicide out of despair) [31E234631(+72)]
the corpse [31E3]
inscription [49L8]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(SURGE)]

Surge [2]

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