Laes, Ongerechtigheijt! nu pronckt ghij wel ondieft
Opt' seven-hoofdich beest, verkouwt in alle Liefdt,
Tot overlopen is v kop vol gift geschoncken,
Van t'martelaeren bloet, O hoer! soo sijt ghy Droncken.
De Liefde Goodts verkluemt, en is van kouw schier doot
Haer vlammen heet ghij door v Couwt fenijn wt goot.
Noch troost ons Cristus koomst, die nae syn welbehagen,
De werelts duijsterheyt en ondeucht sal verjagen.

Ce vase plein de toute iniquité,
La beste aussi & celle qu'elle porte,
Ont si tresfort refroidi charité
Par leur poison, qu'on la tenoit pour morte:
Mais vne chose y a, qui nous conforte,
C'est que prochain est Christ, où elle abonde.
Ia sa clarté nous apparoit si forte,
Qu'elle destruit les tenebres du monde.

68[b] ↓

ABVNDABIT INIQVITAS, REFRIGESCET CHARITAS¹

lxviij.
Iam fueràt diuinus Amor restinctus iniquo
Hoc vase, et lerna hac, quæ vehit, et vehitur,
Ni prope sit Christus: cuius de lumine, tetræ ,
Tamquam Sole nouo, diffugiunt tenebræ.

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Wickedness will be multiplied, love will grow cold.

Already divine love would have been extinguished by this
Evil vessel, and by this monster, that carries and is carried,
Had not Christ been near, from Whose light,
Like a new Sun, the awful darkness flees.

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Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1866

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The whore of Babylon rides the seven-headed beast, trying to extinguish the fire that burns in a pot

insignia of the pope, e.g. tiara (+ variant) [11P31111(+0)]
the second coming of Christ (+ variant) [11U6(+0)]
coldness [22E20]
(high) hill [25H113]
blood [31A22611]
container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin [41A771]
container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase [41A773]
on fire, ablaze [41B4]
fire-extinguishing equipment (+ variant) [41B52(+0)]
table fountain (+ variant) [41C325(+0)]
sayings of Christ: discourse on the last things (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21) (+ variant) [73C749(+0)]
the scarlet woman, the whore of Babylon; she is usually sitting on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns [73G491]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(ABUNDABIT INIQUITAS, REFRIGESCET CHARITAS)]

Abundabit iniquitas Refrigescet charitas [68]

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