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EMBLEMA XVI.
Libera ceu volucris, caveae mox carcere clausa,
Libera confracto carcere rursus abit:
Liber homo natus, mortis dein clausus in antro,
Rursus abit Christo liber ad astra duce.[1]
Just as a free bird, quickly enclosed within the prison of a cage, goes free again with the prison broken, so man is born free, then enclosed within the cave of death, again goes free with Christ as His leader to the stars.
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1. See images of the freedom Christ brings in John 8:32 or Romans 8:2.
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