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Ecclesiastes 12:6

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before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

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Verse 6. Cord. The nerves.—Fillet. Veins, or the spermatic vessels, ( Calmet.) and the soul. Saint Jerome—Cistern. When the bladder, and so forth become disordered. Numbers 24:7. Calmet.

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