{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Moreover, the wise Daniel, while he was a young man,\r\npassed judgment on certain vigorous old men,<a id=\"r1998\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1998\"><sup>[1998]</sup></a> showing them\r\nthat they were abandoned wretches, and not [worthy to be\r\nreckoned] elders, and that, though Jews by extraction, they\r\nwere Canaanites in practice. And Jeremiah, when on\r\naccount of his youth he declined the office of a prophet\r\nentrusted to him by God, was addressed in these words:\r\n“Say not, I am a youth; for thou shalt go to all those to\r\nwhom I send thee, and thou shalt speak according to all that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_485\">485</span>I command thee; because I am with thee.”<a id=\"r1999\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1999\"><sup>[1999]</sup></a> And the wise\r\nSolomon, when only in the twelfth year of his age,<a id=\"r2000\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2000\"><sup>[2000]</sup></a> had\r\nwisdom to decide the important question concerning the\r\nchildren of the two women,<a id=\"r2001\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2001\"><sup>[2001]</sup></a> when it was unknown to whom\r\nthese respectively belonged; so that the whole people were\r\nastonished at such wisdom in a child, and venerated him as\r\nbeing not a mere youth, but a full-grown man. And he\r\nsolved the hard questions of the queen of the Ethiopians,\r\nwhich had profit in them as the streams of the Nile [have\r\nfertility], in such a manner that that woman, though herself\r\nso wise, was beyond measure astonished.<a id=\"r2002\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2002\"><sup>[2002]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","APPENDIX. THE SPURIOUS EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS.","THE EPISTLE OF MARIA THE PROSELYTE TO IGNATIUS.","Chap. iii.—Examples of youthful devotedness."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-859"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5ce982678d46687ba5b518f87b72d0eb42661255f78c811c2263b11836bfb305","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f2000","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f2000","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f2000\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r2000\">2000</a>. </span>Comp. for similar statements to those here made, Epist. to the Magnesians\r\n(longer), <abbr title=\"chapter\">chap.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f2000","text_sha256":"3809910e6f14d613cd8478ca0ad745cb50375b9fe4b36b974492d21d6eaa1b0a","verified":false,"work_id":null}