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Maria to Ignatius

Maria

Chapter 4

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Author: Maria

Chapter IV.—The same subject continued.

Josiah also, beloved of God, when as yet he could scarcely speak

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articulately

,

convicts

those

who

were

possessed

of

a

wicked

spirit

as

being

false

in

their

speech

,

and

deceivers

of

the

people

.

He

also

reveals

the

deceit

of

the

demons

,

and

openly

exposes

those

that

are

no

gods

;

yea

,

while

yet

an

infant

he

slays

their

priests

,

and

overturns

their

altars

,

and

defiles

the

place

where

sacrifices

were

offered

with

dead

bodies

,

and

throws

down

the

temples

,

and

cuts

down

the

groves

,

and

breaks

in

pieces

the

pillars

,

and

breaks

open

the

tombs

of

the

ungodly

,

that

not

a

relic

of

the

wicked

might

any

longer

exist

.

To

such

an

extent

did

he

display

zeal

in

the

cause

of

godliness

,

and

prove

himself

a

punisher

of

the

ungodly

,

while

he

as

yet

faltered

in

speech

like

a

child

.

David

,

too

,

who

was

at

once

a

prophet

and

a

king

,

and

the

root

of

our

Saviour

according

to

the

flesh

,

while

yet

a

youth

is

anointed

by

Samuel

to

be

king

.

For

he

himself

says

in

a

certain

place

,

“

I

was

small

among

my

brethren

,

and

the

youngest

in

the

house

of

my

father

.

”

Notes

17
2 Kings xxii., xxiii.
18
1 Sam. xvi.
19
Ps. cl. 1 (in the Septuagint; not found at all in Hebrew).