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An almond tree blossoms beside an older traveler on a cautious road; mourners are distant, a small grasshopper on earth.
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Ecclesiastes 12:5

Toward the Eternal House

Remember Before the Light Grows Dim · Ecclesiastes 12

Story guide: Interpretive visual essay. Anonymous figures and settings illustrate this passage; they are not identified historical people.

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5Also they are afraid of heights, and terrors are on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry fails, because man is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go about in the street.

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