Moreover, the wise Daniel, while he was a young man, passed judgment on certain vigorous old men,'^ showing them that they were aban- doned wretches, and not [worthy to be reck- oned] 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." '^ And the wise Solomon, when only in the twelfth year of his age,'"* had wisdom to decide the impor- tant question concerning the children of the two women,'5 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 ques- tions 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,