XXXIX.

Filip. I. 24.
Want ik worde van deze twee gedrongen, hebbende
begeerte om ontbonden te worden en met Chri-
stus te zyn.

NU zal de hoop my niet bedriegen.
De hoop geeft vleugels om te vliegen.
Ik zie myn Lief in heerlykheit
Bestraelt met licht en majesteit.
Ik zie Hem wenken met zyne oogen.
Hy reikt zyne armen uit den hoogen
En heldren hemel gunstigh toe,
Op dat Hy mynen lust voldoe.
Hoe zal ik door de wolken streven,
En eeuwigh met myn' Bruigom leven!
Maer och! wat houdt, wat houdt my vast?
De weerelt, die gelyk een last
My aen den voet hangt, trekt my neder.
Laet los, op dat de vlugge veder
My opbeure, en de lucht doorklief.
Myn Bruidegom, myn trouwe Lief,
Daer zyn myn handen. Breek dees keten.
Ik ben van hooger lust bezeten.
Voer me op. Of, magh dat nogh niet zyn,
Dael Gy dan neêr, en stil myn pyn.

[40a] ↓

Ad Philip. 1.
Coarctor autem e duobus; desiderium
habens dissolvi et esse cum Christo.

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Remake of image, not mirrored, in: Coarctor è duobus [39] (in: Justus de Harduwijn, Goddelycke wenschen (1629)) [Compare]
Compare Quarles, Emblems, divine and moral, embl. 5.9

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The human soul tries to fly towards sacred love, but is held back by the orb to which her foot is chained

God's perfections [11A23]
Christ and the Soul [11D51]
Hope, 'Spes'; 'Speranza divina e certa' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M32]
love towards God; 'Amore verso Iddio' (Ripa) [11Q01]
nimbus, halo ~ radiance emanating from persons or things [22C311]
firmament, sky [24F]
birds (+ wings of an animal) [25F3(+342)]
birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F3(+5262)]
birds (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught) [25F3(+621)]
(high) hill [25H113]
arm raised upward - AA - both arms or hands [31AA2511]
boy (child between toddler and youth) [31D11221]
youth, adolescent [31D12]
adolescent, young woman, maiden [31D13]
the soul during lifetime [31G1]
fowling, fowler (+ requirements, necessaries (sports ~ animals)) [43C13(+4)(STICK)]
orb (symbol of sovereignty; sphere with cross on top) [44B193]
(person) in fetters, not imprisoned [44G3129]
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope [47D8(ROPE)]
Hindrance, Obstruction (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE2(+4)]
Conflict; 'Contrasto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE3(+4)]
epistle of Paul to the Philippians [73F415]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(COARCTOR AUTEM E DUOBUS; DESIDERIUM HABENS DISSOLVI ET ESSE CUM CHRISTO)]

Coarctor autem e duobus [39]

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