Een anders hant ghebruijckt Dees uijl om blussen uijt
De Lamp. op dat daer nae de Olij wert sijn buijt.
Haet alle licht en heeft in duijsterheijt behagen,
Van vrese datmen hem souw sien en fluckx verjagen.
Soo meent de schalcke en vervloeckte AnteCrist
Door koningen die hij noch Daegelijckx ophist
Te dempen Godes Woort, licht boven alle Claerheijt.
Om dat hij Logens leert, soo haet hij alle waarheijt

Par main d'autruy la lampe veut esteindre
Ce Chahuan, qui hait toute lumiere,
Pour puis apres à boire l'huile atteindre,
Sans qu'on le puisse au iour chasser arriere.
Or l'Antechrist cuide en ceste maniere
Esteindre aussi par Rois le fleurissant
Regne de Christ, clarté vive et entiere,
Pour devorer puis apres l'innocent.

21[b] ↓

SIC VIVO

xxj.
Pingue oleum sitiens, exosam lampada bubo
Non tamen ipse sua comprimit ante manu.
Et Satan, Veri impatiens, inimica malorum
Sæuus in insontes commouet arma ducum.

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21[a]

21[b]

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...

So I live.

Although it thirsts for the fat oil, the owl because it abhors
The lamp, still does not itself grab with its own claw beforehand.
Satan also, since he cannot bear the Truth, in rage summons up the
Hostile arms of evil leaders against the innocent.

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Literature

Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 898f

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Sources and parallels

Owl hiding from the light in: La Perrière, La Morosophie, embl. 35
Cupid as a night owl, detesting the light of the day in: Venturum exhorresco diem [27] (in: anonymous, Typus mundi (1627)) [Compare]

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Venturum exhorresco diem [27] (in: anonymous, Typus mundi (1627))

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An owl puts a hand on a stick through a window to extinguish an oil-lamp and steal its oil

Antichrist (+ variant) [11D9(+0)]
'yad' (hand), pointer used at reading the Torah [12A4423(+0)]
darkness [22C9]
owls (+ animal(s) holding something) [25F34(+5245)]
trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)]
(high) hill [25H113]
hand (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2245(+931)]
index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552]
open window [41A3311]
burning as process: oil [41B12(OIL)]
extinguishing a fire [41B14]
oil-lamp (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41B34(+1)]
oils and vegetable fats (+ variant) [41C671(+0)]
inscription [49L8]
'I am the light of the world' ~ sayings of Christ (John 8:12, 9:5) (+ variant) [73C7471(+0)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(SIC VIVO)]

Sic vivo [21]

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