Cleijn, weerghebooren, kints, onnosel van het quaet,
Die heft sijn hert tot Godt daer al sijn hoop op staet.
Rijckdom en Eer, daer me de werelt is beslommert
En gaet hem gansch niet aen. eenvuldich, onbecommert,
Met vast betrouwen jn den Hemel hij verwacht
Sijn blijtschap. Daer een Rycke werelt-wijs me lacht.
Hoe Salich is hij die hem selven Can versaeken,
De werelt afgaen om in Crist hem Rijck te maken.

Cest innocent mettant son cœur à Dieu,
N'a nul soucy de toute autre richesse:
En luy aussi presomption n'a lieu:
Car haut au ciel est toute sa liesse.
Plusieurs icy errent par leur rudesse,
Prenans les sots pour les poures d'esprit.
Sage est celuy qui renonce & qui laisse
Le monde & soy, pour estre riche en Christ.

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BEATI PAVPERES

lxiij.
Spiritus haud illi pauper qui desipit, aut qui
Et facit, & loquitur singula ridicule:
Quin puero magis, qui cùm sapit, attamen vsque
Impuris purum cor habet à vitijs.

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Blessed are the poor.

His spirit is not poor who does not know, or whose
Acts and speech go in single line, in a ridiculous way.
So much more this is the case for the boy who, while he does have
Knowledge, still constantly keeps his heart pure from impure vice.

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A naked boy holds up a heart on a stick, offering it to God; a globe with symbols of wordly richess

tetragram (in Roman or Hebrew script) ~ symbol of God the Father [11C13]
Hope, 'Spes'; 'Speranza divina e certa' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M32]
the believer [11Q11]
globe [25A13]
low hill country [25H114]
village [25I2]
clouds [26A]
heart symbolism [31A22210]
boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ nude human being) [31D11221(+89)]
container of textile material: bag, sack [41A777]
purse, money-bag [41D267]
angling [43C121]
flagpole (+ variant) [44A32(+0)]
the poor [46A15]
carrying something [46C121]
pier, quay, wharf [46C2231]
inscription [49L8]
Wealth, Opulence; 'Opulenza', 'Richezza' (Ripa) [55B1]
Poverty; 'Poverté', 'Poverté del doni', 'Poverté in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa) [55BB1]
Offering; 'Offerta overo Oblatione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [55C22(+4)]
Despising the World; 'Dispregio del mondo', 'Disprezzo et Distruttione de i piaceri & cattivi affetti' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57BB211(+4)]
other blessings of Christ [73C772(LUKE 6:20)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(BEATI PAUPERES)]

Beati pauperes [63]

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