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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 men, 1 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." 2

And the wise Solomon, when only in the twelfth year of his age, 3 had wisdom to decide the important question concerning the children of the two women, 4 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. 5


  1. The ancient Latin version translates omogerontas "cruel old men," which perhaps suits the reference better.  ↩

  2. Jer. i. 7.  ↩

  3. Comp. for similar statements to those here made, Epistle to the Magnesians (longer), chap. iii.  ↩

  4. Literally, "understood the great question of the ignorance of the women respecting their children." ↩

  5. Literally, "out of herself." ↩

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