So lang als Cristus niet met melijdent ghesicht
Aensiet de arme Mensch en weer ontsteeckt het licht
Door Sondt gheblasen uijt. soo lang machmen hem tellen
Onder de dooden en gevangens vander Hellen.
O onbegrijplicke Ghenaede die ons weckt
Door t'levende Geloof dat ons wt duijster treckt
Int' licht en doet met ernst ons bidden en begeeren
Ach Godt wilt nimermeer v Aenschijn van ons keeren.

Si Iesus-Christ n'eust esclairé nostre ombre,
Comme cestuy, nous serions endormis,
Et reputez d'entre les morts au nombre:
Mais de sa grace il ne l'a point permis.
Puis qu'il nous a hors de tenebres mis,
Et donné foy pour à luy nous conduire.
Prions tousiours que n'y soyons remis,
Et que sur nous sa clarté face luire.

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SVRGE, ILLVCESCET TIBI CHRISTVS¹

lvij.
Te sine, perpetua mortales nocte iacerent:
Sed iucunda redit lumine vita tuo.
Hoc animos succende (precor) tibi, Christe, potestas
Hæc data, ne nobis excidat alma Fides.

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57[b]

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Arise, and Christ shall give thee light.

You, allow that mortals lie in perpetual night,
But pleasant life returns by Your light.
Kindle fire in our hearts, Christ, I beg You,
-- the power is Yours --, lest we lose our nourishing faith.

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Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1367

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Christ lights a candle on a graveyard-wall; a corpse lying next to an open grave

adult Christ together with mortals [11D335]
nimbus, halo ~ radiance emanating from persons or things [22C311]
low hill country [25H114]
(human) skull [31A211]
bones in general (human body) [31A216]
lying figure [31A236]
the corpse [31E3]
death's head, skull (symbol of Death) [31F11]
candle (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41B31(+1)]
candlestick [41B313]
head-gear (with NAME) [41D221(CAP)]
burial (+ variant) [42E23(+0)]
churchyard, cemetery [42E43]
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: pickaxe [47D8(PICKAXE)]
agricultural implements: spade [47I15(SPADE)]
inscription [49L8]
Resurrection; 'Ressurrettione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51L51(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(SURGE ILLUCESCET TIBI CHRISTUS)]

Surge, illucescet tibi Christus [57]

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