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Before the silver cord is severed

Yesterday, my daughter and I went shopping. I told her about this thread and how some of you knew what the silver cord was. I made sure I told her that astral projection is witchcraft and is forbidden for the Christian.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Yesterday, my daughter and I went shopping. I told her about this thread and how some of you knew what the silver cord was. I made sure I told her that astral projection is witchcraft and is forbidden for the Christian.
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lol. im must chuckle in my days of that stuff. I would have attempted to find her locale and turn my energy against her. oh wait a deceived man I was when I did that stuff. witches are bad and I must stop them with the means they do.
 
I was going to ask if the cord mentioned in the verse might be more figurative than literal, but it seems accounts shared in this thread would suggest otherwise. Fascinating.
 
questdriven said:
I was going to ask if the cord mentioned in the verse might be more figurative than literal, but it seems accounts shared in this thread would suggest otherwise. Fascinating.
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I couldn't agree more.

The church has lost so much understanding of the spirit realm. I think it's another consequence of the church distancing itself from Jewish believers long ago. The Jews have a lot more understanding about these things than we gentiles do.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
I couldn't agree more.

The church has lost so much understanding of the spirit realm. I think it's another consequence of the church distancing itself from Jewish believers long ago. The Jews have a lot more understanding about these things than we gentiles do.
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what is the verse? I can go to rashi and see what he says.
 
tandemcpl said:
Jethro,

Thanks for the post. It forced me to do some studying and I actually learned something.

Following is what I found:

Ecclesiastes 12:6

A double image, to represent death, as in Eccl 12:1-5 old age was symbolically represented.

(1) A lamp of frail material, but gilded over, often in the East hung from roofs by a cord of silk and silver interwoven: as the lamp is dashed down and broken when the cord breaks; so man's life, as it were let down from above, is snapped at death. "The golden bowl" of the lamp answers to the skull, which, from the vital preciousness of its contents, may be called "golden;" "the silver cord" is the spinal marrow, which is white and precious as silver, and is attached to the brain.

(2) A fountain, from which water is drawn by a pitcher let down by a rope wound round a wheel; as when the pitcher and wheel are broken, water can no more be drawn, so life ceases when the vital energies are gone. The "fountain" may mean the right ventricle of the heart; the "cistern," the left; the pitcher, the veins; the wheel, the aorta, or great artery. The circulation of the blood, whether known or not to Solomon, seems to be implied in the language put by the Holy Spirit into his mouth. Hengstenberg explains the pitcher as the image of the individual life, the fountain the image of the general life: God supplying the great general treasure from which all individuals take to themselves what is needful to their subsistence. The wheel expresses life in its rapid motion (James 3:6; literally, the 'wheel of nature.') This gloomy picture of old age applies to those who have not 'remembered their Creator in youth.' They have none of the consolations of God, which they might have obtained in youth: it is now too late to seek them. A good old age is a blessing to the godly (Gen. 15:15; Job 5:26; Prov. 16:31; 20:29).

(From Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright © 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Be Blessed.

Toby
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Interesting info.

Good to dig into word meanings!

Blessings.
 
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