 | 1834 - 784 ページ
...and desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it." The body, it would seem, is pulled down with as much care and preparation (if I may say so) as it is built... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 ページ
...his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Then follows an account of MAN'S dissolution. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. This is the end of human life —... | |
 | Thomas Shapter - 1834 - 210 ページ
...age. 14 MEDICA SACRA. language as euphonous and magnificent as it is striking and characteristic. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern :" need these words any explanation, any... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 ページ
...mourners go about the streets : 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be br6ken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 (°) Then shall dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit, shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | Johannes Herr - 1834 - 410 ページ
...pronounced by G od against all sinners. Oh God ! grant that all may see this, before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain. JEcc. 12, 6. O ye sons of men ! with bruised and contrite hearts, and suppliant hands, draw nigh unto... | |
 | Thomas Tunstall Haverfield - 1835 - 304 ページ
...words of the inspired Preacher—" Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." * The body, then, * Eccles. xii. 5, 6, 7. being restored to the ground — earth to earth, ashes to ashes,... | |
 | 1830 - 820 ページ
...and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it." But old age, while it is thus a... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 ページ
...burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher;... | |
 | Kathleen Lalani Mayfield - 2003 - 378 ページ
...desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Verse 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. When a person dies after seventy and beyond it's referred to as the silver cord being loosed these... | |
 | John Henry Newman, Saint John Henry Newman - 2003 - 212 ページ
...and the doors are shut in the streets, and the daughters of music are brought low, and desire fails: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." (Eccles 12: i, 34, 6) We leave the goods of earth before they leave us. Let us not shrink from this... | |
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... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it. 
