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Ecclesiastes 12:2

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Before the sun That is, before old age: the effects of which upon all the senses and faculties are described in the following verses, under a variety of figures. (Challoner) All are exhorted to live well, before death come to deprive them of their senses and all helps: and to continue in expectation of judgment, the signs of which are given, as Matthew xxiv. (Worthington) (St. Jerome) Rain. One misery succeeds another, the understanding is darkened, and the senses become dull. (Calmet) The Jews explain ver. 2, 7., of the future distress of their nation under captivity. (St. Jerome) (Haydock)

Richard Challoner

AD 1781
Before the sun: That is, before old age: the effects of which upon all the senses and faculties are described in the following verses, under a variety of figures.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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