
Ce qui estoit pour nourriture tue,
Comme voyez ceste belle chandele.
Ainsi en prend à cestuy-la qui mue
La verité de Dieu, par sa cautele,
Bonne de soy: mais est par l’infidele
Souvent tournee à sa damnation:
Et au croyant donne vie eternele,
Lequel la tient au coeur sans fiction.

QUO NUTRIT ME CONSUMMAT
What feeds me consumes me
liiii.
Ardebam, puro clarissima lumine: sed jam
Me cera extinxit, qui mihi fomes erat.
Tale Dei verbum est cordi letale profano,
Quod menti praebet pabula sancta piae.
I was burning, shining most bright with a pure light, but now the wax which was my kindling has extinguished me. In such a way the word of God which offers nourishment to a faithful mind/soul brings death to an unholy heart.
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- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- candle [41B31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- candlestick [41B313] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothing for the upper part of the body [41D223] Search | Browse Iconclass
- continuous dripping (violent death ~ water) [31E23112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- extinguishing; extinguished light, lamp, candle «« KEY (2) TO 41B3 lighting; lamps [41B3(+2)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gear for legs and feet [41D233] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (with NAME) [41D221(TURBAN)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- holding something «« KEY (933) TO 31A the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) [31A(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- holding something «« KEY (933) TO 31B6 morphology of human expression [31B6(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other animal material ~ crafts and industries (with NAME) [47(+456)(Wax)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other rooms [41A25] Search | Browse Iconclass
- table [41A711] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Faith, 'Fides'; 'Fede', 'Fede catholica', 'Fede christiana', 'Fede christiana catholica' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- God the Father «« KEY (11) TO 11 Christian religion [11(+11)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- heart [31A2221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- heaven, celestial paradise, New Earth [11S] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Immortality, Imperishableness; 'Immortalità' (Ripa) [58B3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Mortality, Extinction of Life [58BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- nutrition, nourishment [41C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Sincerity; 'Purità et Sincerità d'animo', 'Sincerità' (Ripa) [57A612] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the believer [11Q11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the damned souls, and their punishment [11T5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Truth; 'Verità' (Ripa) [52A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Unbelief, 'Infidelitas' [11N4] Search | Browse Iconclass
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