{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1894,"date_label":"1894 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1894,"edition_year":1894,"edition_year_basis":"Original NPNF Series II Volume XI title and copyright, 1894; transcription physical printing year unknown","id":"ws-library-full-note:d91df848352e78b76014:cite_note-1","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter XIII.; original source section: Chapter 13; original book/conference: II. Second Conference of Abbot Moses., editorial note cite_note-1","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["Moses: Just as all young men are not alike in fervour of spirit nor equally instructed in learning and good morals, so too we cannot find that all old men are equally perfect and excellent. For the true riches of old men are not to be measured by grey hairs but by their diligence in youth and the rewards of their past labours. “For,” says one, “the things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt thou find them in thy old age?” “For venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the number of years: but the understanding of a man is grey hairs, and a spotless life is old age.” And therefore we are not to follow in the steps or embrace the traditions and advice of every old man whose head is covered with grey hairs, and whose age is his sole claim to respect, but only of those whom we find to have distinguished themselves in youth in an approved and praiseworthy manner, and to have been trained up not on self-assurance but on the traditions of the Elders. For there are some,"],"source_library_url":"/library/d91df848352e78b76014/#ws-library-full-note:d91df848352e78b76014:cite_note-1","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_XI/John_Cassian/Conferences_of_John_Cassian,_Part_I/Conference_II/Chapter_13#cite_note-1","translator":"Rev. Edgar C. S. Gibson (M.A.)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0061/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"7c4407a5986a306f1eaff33bf3f1bf135fc2e65f72270d1b3381ed0616bfbce3","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:d91df848352e78b76014:cite_note-1"},"verified":true,"work":"Conferences of John Cassian, Part I","work_id":"ws-npnf2-11-cassian-f12d9718427e1844f04b"}