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Chapter IV.—The same subject
continued.
Josiah also, beloved of God, when as yet he could
scarcely speak articulately, convicts those who were possessed of a
wicked spirit as being false in their speech, and deceivers of the
people. He also reveals the deceit of the demons, and openly exposes
those that are no gods; yea, while yet an infant he slays their priests,
and overturns their altars, and defiles the place where sacrifices were
offered with dead bodies, and throws down the temples, and cuts down the
groves, and breaks in pieces the pillars, and breaks open the tombs of
the ungodly, that not a relic of the wicked might any longer exist.1370
To such an extent did he display zeal in
the cause of godliness, and prove himself a punisher of the ungodly,
while he as yet faltered in speech like a child. David, too, who was at once a prophet and a king, and
the root of our Saviour according to the flesh, while yet a youth is
anointed by Samuel to be king.1371
For he
himself says in a certain place, “I was small among my brethren,
and the youngest in the house of my father.”1372
| 1372 Ps. cl. 1 (in the
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