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Het geluk van de liefde.

The happiness of love

Gelukkig is het geweten en welzalig de ongereptheid van degene in wiens hart geen andere liefde huist naast de liefde van Christus die de wijsheid, de kuisheid, het geduld, de rechtvaardigheid en de overige deugden is, èn van degene die nooit naar de herinnering van een mens smacht of verlangt hem te zien.

Happy is his conscience and blessed his virginity in whose heart no other love resides but the love of Christ, that is wisdom, chastity, endurance, justice, and the other virtues, and does not at any moment sigh in remembrance of man, nor longs to see him.

Gelukkig degene die u, Heer, liefheeft en zijn vriend in u en zijn vijand omwille van u. Want de enige die nooit een dierbaar wezen verliest is de mens, aan wie allen dierbaar zijn in Hem die niet verloren gaat.

Blessed is he who loves you, Lord, and loves a friend in you and an enemy because of you. For he alone loses no one dear to him, to whom all are dear in Him, who is not lost.

Er is, Heer, niets tederders dan uw liefde, en geen liefde is heilzamer dan die tot uw waarheid, wier schoonheid en luister alles overtreffen.

There is nothing lovelier, my Lord, than your love, and there is nothing that is more wholesome to love than that truth of Yours which is beautiful and shining above everything else.

Welzalig wie God liefheeft, want van Hem liefde krijgen is het hoogste geluk.

Wanneer we het stoffelijke achter ons laten en slechts de liefde van de hemel hebben, dan zijn we waarlijk vol liefde en gelukkig. Want in de mate waarin de gedachte aan iets aards in de ziel blijft, zozeer wordt zij ook belemmerd te genieten van haar hoogste goed.

Literature

1. Buschhoff, Zur gedanklichen Struktur, p. 45
2. Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 134
3. Sebastián, Visión emblemática del amor divino, p. 17

Sources and parallels

• A partial parallel for the pictura (mirrored background): Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]
• Similar pictura in: Animæ felicitas [96] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724)) [Compare]
• A parallel (and probably source) for the pictura (background): Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)) [Compare]
• A parallel (and probably source) for the pictura (background): Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601)) [Compare]
• Pictura remade and slightly different motto in: Animæ felicitas [96] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724)) [Compare]

References, across this site, to this page:

• Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
• Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
• Mes pleurs mon feu decelent [3] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
• Mes pleurs mon feu decelent. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido (1613))
• Mes pleurs mōn feu decelēt. [27] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
• Animæ felicitas [96] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724))
• Animæ felicitas [96] (in: Jan Suderman, De godlievende ziel (1724))
• Carmen de amore (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))

Iconclass

• God's perfections [11A23]
• Faith, 'Fides'; 'Fede', 'Fede catholica', 'Fede christiana', 'Fede christiana catholica' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues (+ angel(s)) [11M31:5(+3)]
• Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudenza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues (+ angel(s)) [11M41:5(+3)]
• Temperance, 'Temperantia'; 'Temperanza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues (+ angel(s)) [11M42:5(+3)]
• Fortitude, 'Fortitudo' ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues (+ angel(s)) [11M43:5(+3)]
• Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues (+ angel(s)) [11M44:5(+3)]
• parts of church exterior and annexes (with NAME) [11Q7121(CHAPEL)]
• altar [11Q7141]
• altarcross, crucifix [11Q71423]
• radiance emanating from persons or things [22C31]
• globe [25A13]
• other birds: dove [25F39(DOVE)]
• water course [25H21]
• sitting on the ground [31A2351]
• sitting on the ground - AA - female human figure [31AA2351]
• walking arm in arm [31A25411]
• mirror [31A511]
• the soul during lifetime [31G1]
• hand on shoulder (friends) [33A52]
• arm in arm (lovers) [33C231]
• 'Castité', 'Pudicitia', 'Vergogna honesta' (Ripa) [33C8120]
• rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage [41A16]
• garden buildings [41A62]
• scales [46B3311]
• reins [46C131613]
• ships (in general) [46C21]
• column, pillar ~ architecture [48C161]
• Happiness, Felicity (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56B2(+4)]
• (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ clothed with wings) [56F2(+1331)]
• (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
• Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57A6(+4)]
• proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMORIS FELICITAS)]

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