Book Title: Pious addresses of the heart to God wherein is shown its departure from and return to God in forty seven divine emblems illustrated with copper plates / By a Private Hand.

Author: Private hand

Image Title: The Insatiability of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Sirach 14 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a person holding a globus cruciger on the ground beneath a tree while an angel gestures towards the scene on the right. The image is titled with the Latin CORDIS INSATIABILITAS, which translates “the insatiability of the heart,” and is accompanied by the text of Sirach 14:9. This is the tenth in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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