Cosmas Indicopleustes, on Isa 38:12

“My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd’s tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.”

“It has gone out and gone away from me, as one takes down the tent which he had pitched; meaning: And so completely has my former overweening arrogance departed from me, that I am like one, who, after having pitched a tent, forthwith takes it down again. The breath within me is as when a weaver is preparing to cut away the web from the loom; meaning: My very soul had all but left me, just as when the web of a woman who is weaving is ready to be cut”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.