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Maria to Ignatius

Maria

Chapter 3

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Author: Maria

Chapter III.—Examples of youthful devotedness.

Moreover, the wise Daniel, while he was a young man, passed

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judgment

on

certain

vigorous

old

man

,

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

.

”

And

the

wise

Solomon

,

when

only

in

the

twelfth

year

of

his

age

,

had

wisdom

to

decide

the

important

question

concerning

the

children

of

the

two

women

,

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

.

Notes

12
The ancient Latin version translates ὠμογέροντας “cruel old men,” which perhaps suits the reference better.
13
Jer. i. 7.
14
Comp. for similar statements to those here made, Epistle to the Magnesians (longer), chap. iii.
15
Literally, “understood the great question of the ignorance of the women respecting their children.”
16
Literally, “out of herself.”