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Derelinque [41]


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Merckt op O menschen! siet dit is v een Pratroon.
De Slang om nieuw te sijn, is alle Jaers ghewoon
Te soecken hoog bequaem om Daer te trecken uijt
Sijn out Verdurven quaet en onder-aertsche huijt.
Schudt wt den Adam out vol sondt en grulyckheden
Hecht die aen Doornen van de werelts listicheden,
V eerst gheboorte en v selven gansch versaeckt,
Want nae de Weergeboort sult ghij eerst sijn volmaeckt translation

Un bel exemple auons en la coleuure,
Laquelle laisse au hallier sa peau dure,
A celle fin qu'une neuve recœuure.
Ostons ainsi auec sa pourriture
Du vieil Adam la peruerse nature,
Pour au second estre nais & refaicts:
Car du premier nous n'auons rien qu'ordure,
Mais au second sommes rendus parfaicts. translation

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Ponere scit veteres coluber reparabilis annos,
Et nouus, exuta pelle, resurgit humo.
Illius exemplo, primæuas ablue sordes,
Qui vita in Christo vis meliore frui . translation

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Leave it behind
The snake is reparable: it knows how to shed old years and
Once it has rid itself of its skin, it rises up new from the ground.
By its example, wash off your age-old dirt,
You who wish to enjoy a better life in Christ.


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  1. Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 634f

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    A snake moves forward, leaving its old skin behind

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