John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 12:2

Verſ. 2. While the Sun, or the light, or the Moon, &c.] i. e. Whiles greater and leſſer comforts fail not. Or before the ſight of thine eyes grow dim, and as unfit to let in light, as an old duſty window. The air to aged eyes, ſeemeth duſty and miſty, and the Sun wadeth, as the Moon in a foggy evening, and the ſtars are out of ſight;1 Cor. 13. they ſee thorow a glaſs darkly, as the Apoſtle ſpeaks in another caſe, they can know no kin without ſpectacles; the defluxion of rheum, which trickleth down the noſe and cheeks, being as it were the Rain, the gathering of new matter, which continually diſtilleth, being as it were the returning of the clouds after the rain in a moiſt ſeaſon, and waters into an emptied fountain. Some (with relation to the former verſe) interpret the words thus: Let thy Creator bee remembred while the Sun is not darkned, that is, while youth continueth: Or if not ſo, while the light of the Sun is not gone, that is, while thy manhood laſteth: Or if not ſo, while the Moon is not darkned, that is, while thine elder years are not ſpent: Or if not ſo, while the ſtars are not ſhut up, while the worſt of old age hath not ſeized upon thee: for then the clouds will return after the Rain; that is, one grief comes upon the neck of another,Pſal. 42.7. as deep calleth upon deep at the noiſe of the water-ſpouts. One affliction followeth and occaſioneth another, without intermiſſion of trouble, as one billow comes wallowing and tumbling upon another; or as in April weather, one ſhowre is unburthened, another is brewed. Hence ſome of the antient Patriarchs are ſaid to have died old men, and full of years, they had enough of this world, and deſired to depart, as Abraham, Simeon, others. Hence the Poets feign that Tithonus, when he might have had immortality here, hee would not.Cic. de Senectu [illegible: 1 letter]e. And Cato proteſted, that if of old hee might bee made young again, hee would ſeriouſly refuſe it.