
De Dieu la voye est droite & trespolie:
Le juste y passe, & le meschant trebusche.
Qui fait cela? son orgueil & folie,
Qui d’un festu fait une lourde buche,
L’homme endurci les saints escrits espluche,
Non pour desir de gloire ą son Dieu rendre,
Mais pour remplir sa sotte coqueluche
De mots obscurs pour l’innocent surprendre.

FACILE DIFFICILE
Easy [is] difficult
xciiii.
Plana via est, nullis salebris, non obsita spinis
Semita mortales quą jubet ire Deus:
Hac iustus pergit facilč, at mens impia nodum
Repperit in scirpo, nec potis ire simul.
The way is smooth, the path which God orders mortals to go is not sown with any roughness nor with thorns; the just man walks there easily, but the unbelieving mind finds difficulties where there are none (lit. seeks a knot in a bullrush), nor can you go the same way.
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- clothing for the lower part of the body [41D23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- hand on the heart [31A25162] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear and clothing for the upper part of the body [41D22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- road, path [46C11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rocks [25H112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- stumbling [31A27321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tetragram (in Roman or Hebrew script) ~ symbol of God the Father [11C13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking [31A2711] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking-stick, staff [41D263] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Complacency, Self-conceit [57AA646] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Deity, God (in general) ~ Christian religion [11A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Difficulty [54DD4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Facility [54D4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) [52AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Innocence; 'Innocenza', 'Innocenza o puritą' (Ripa) [57A631] Search | Browse Iconclass
- journey to heaven, pathway to heaven [11S3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pride, Loftiness; 'Alterezza in persona nata povera civile' (Ripa) [57AA64] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pride; 'Superbia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Roughness [51GG6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the way to destruction is broad and the gate is wide; the way to life is narrow and the gate is straight ~ doctrine of Christ on love, etc. (Matthew 7:13-14; Luke 13:24) [73C7454] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Unbelief, 'Infidelitas' [11N4] Search | Browse Iconclass
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