Int' midden van de Zee daer Dulle winden maken
Een Schrickelijck tempeest, is Godt dees man sijn baken.
Daer seijlt hij Recht op toe. noch klip, noch drooge Zant,
En deert hem. (Daer soo menich duijsent schip op strant.)
Die vast op Godt vertrouwt gaet nimmermeer verlooren.
Hij wil hem helpen en altijt in noodt verhooren.
Maer die Godt niet vertrout, moet weeten voor gewis,
Datt daer gheen plaets voor Hem sonder Perijkel is.

Du grand peril des vens et de la mer,
Cest homme a bien cognoissance tresclaire,
Et ne craind point de se voir abismer,
Puis que son Dieu l'adresse et luy esclaire.
Nul, qui en Dieu remet tout son affaire,
Ne se verra despourveu de secours.
Mais cestui-la, qui fera le contraire,
Sera confus par son propre recours.

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xi.
Quamlibet iratos, venti, exercete furores:
Tuta tamen summis cymba natabit aquis:
Nec tumidos metuet fluctus, nam lucida cœlo
Fax micat, optatæ dux mihi certa viæ.

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...

Whom will I fear?

Winds, unleash furies as raging as you wish:
Still the raft will swim in the deepest waters in safety,
And it will not fear the swollen waves, for a shining torch
Flashes in heaven, a sure guide to the life I have wished for.

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Literature

Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1462

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King on a sailing boat in: Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum

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During a heavy storm at sea, a sailor is guided by the burning torch in God's hand

hand, 'Dextera Dei' ~ symbol of God the Father [11C12]
Faith, 'Fides'; 'Fede', 'Fede catholica', 'Fede christiana', 'Fede christiana catholica' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M31]
clouds [26A]
storm [26C3]
head (human) [31A221]
hand (+ holding something) [31A2245(+933)]
cheeks rounded [31B6241]
child [31D112]
adult man [31D14]
torch (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41B32(+1)]
sailing-ship, sailing-boat [46C24]
seaman: sailor [46C2711(SAILOR)]
beacon [46C283]
inscription [49L8]
Guidance (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54E2(+4)]
Human Life represented by a ship (+ variant) [58B213(+0)]
Human Life represented by a ship (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58B213(+4)]
the book of Psalms ~ other scenes [71X1(Ps. 26:1)4]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(QUEM TIMEBO)]

Quem timebo [11]

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