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| Chapter III.—Examples of youthful devotedness.
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Chapter III.—Examples of youthful
devotedness.
Moreover, the wise Daniel, while he was a young man,
passed judgment on certain vigorous old man,1365
| 1365 The ancient Latin version translates
ὠμογέροντας
“cruel old men,” which perhaps suits the reference
better. | showing them that they were abandoned wretches, and
not [worthy to be reckoned] elders, and that, though Jews by extraction,
they were Canaanites in practice. And Jeremiah, when on account of his
youth he declined the office of a prophet entrusted to him by God, was
addressed in these words: “Say not, I am a youth; for thou shalt go
to all those to whom I send thee, and thou shalt speak according to all
that I command thee; because I am with thee.”1366
And the wise Solomon, when only in the twelfth year of his
age,1367
| 1367 Comp. for similar
statements to those here made, Epistle to the Magnesians (longer), chap.
iii. | had wisdom to decide the important question concerning
the children of the two women,1368
when it was unknown to whom these respectively belonged; so that the
whole people were astonished at such wisdom in a child, and venerated him
as being not a mere youth, but a full-grown man. And he solved the hard
questions of the queen of the Ethiopians, which had profit in them as the
streams of the Nile [have fertility], in such a manner that that woman,
though herself so wise, was beyond measure astonished.1369
| 1369 Literally, “out of
herself.” | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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