Before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 12:6 Go To Ecclesiastes 12
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cord. The nerves.
Fillet. Veins, or the spermatic vessels, (Calmet) and the soul. (St. Jerome)
Cistern. When the bladder, become disordered, Numbers xxiv. 7. (Calmet)
