Folio88 r: Iconoclasts, Psalm 68:26-33

TRANSLATION

"For they persecute the ones you have struck
and talk of the grief of those you have wounded.
Add iniquity to their iniquity and let them not come into your righteousness
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living
and not be written with the righteous.
But I am poor and sorrowful; Let your salvation O God set me up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song,
and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull
which has horns and hooves.
The humble shall see this and be glad,
and you who seek God your hearts shall live.
For the Lord hears the poor and does not despise His prisoners."

DESCRIPTION

In this marginal illustration, two iconoclasts, one of them a priest, raise a pole, whitewashing a clipeate image of Christ. The illustration parallels the illustration on the verso of the previous page, i.e., Crucifixion and the soldier giving gall to Christ. Red inscriptions state "Iconoclasts" and "Jesus Christ."
The lower illustration corresponds to Psalm 68:29, because the red inscription states "Simoniac ordination" The words of Psalm 68:29 state: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living." A demon hides behind a bishop, whispering in the bishop's ear. The bishop holds a purse, and two men approach, giving him money.

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