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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"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." He returns to former matter and after a rather large exaggeration, -which he interposes in this place, in which he says, "and remember your Creator, in the day of your youth; before the days of wickedness come, and before the sun, moon grow dark" and so on, "in the day in which the keepers of the house are renewed". …
Bonaventure
He touches on the miseries following death, which are the dissolution of the body and the migration of the spirit to God. First is noted the dissolution of the sinews, when he says: "Before the silver cord is broken," and the phrase must be repeated: "Remember your Creator" etc. The intertwining of the sinews is rightly called a cord, because it encircles and binds the whole body, and silver, on account of their whiteness and translucency. The silver cord therefore is broken when the binding of the sinews is dissolved. …
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