Translation:<br><p><i>To the honourable and wise <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_(Christianity)" class="extiw" title="en:Minister (Christianity)">minister</a> Jacobus Heijblock.</i><br></p><p><i>Here shows us <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt" class="extiw" title="en:Rembrandt">Rembrandt</a> how the old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_(Gospel_of_Luke)" class="extiw" title="en:Simeon (Gospel of Luke)">Simeon</a> embraces his divine saviour and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah" class="extiw" title="en:Messiah">messias</a> with joy. And now wishes to die, since His gracious son has appeared, who will protect all men (who always rely on him) against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_Hell" class="extiw" title="en:Christian views on Hell">Hell</a> and eternal death. Which might teach us, that those who fear God, do not (have to) fear death at all. Since it is the help of the good, when in peril, which is the (greatest) fear of evil men. What, ô Heijblock, can be of more comfort to us than that?</i><br></p>
<i>Anno 1665, the 30th of March, A(rnoldus) L(ieranus).</i>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80795036" class="extiw" title="d:Q80795036"><span title="Dutch clergyman (ca. 1637-1703)">Arnoldus Lieranus</span></a>
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