100. Beautiful, therefore, is the union
between old and young. The one to give witness, the other to give
comfort; the one to give guidance, the other to give pleasure. I
pass by Lot, who when young clung to Abraham, as he was setting
out. Gen. xii. 5. For some perhaps might say this
arose rather owing to their relationship than from any voluntary action
on his part. And what are we to say of Elijah and
Elisha? 1 [3] Kings
xix. 21. Though Scripture has not in so many
words stated that Elisha was a young man, yet we gather from it that he
was the younger. In the Acts of the Apostles, Barnabas took Mark
with him, and Paul took Silas Acts xv. 39, 40. and Timothy Acts xvi. 3. and Titus. Tit. i. 5.