The house — Of the body: whose keepers are the hands and arms, which are man's best instruments to defend his body; and which in a special manner are subject to his trembling. The strong men — The thighs and legs, in which the main strength of the body consists. Grinders — The teeth, those especially which are commonly so called, because they grind the meat. Cease — To perform their office. And those, &c. — The eyes. By windows he understands either the eye — lids, which like windows, are either opened or shut: or, those humours and coats of the eyes, which are the chief instruments by which we see.
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Ecclesiastes 12:3
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grindersa cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,