“This is a lesson that ought to be taught in youth and never abandoned. Whence in Ecclesiasticus: "Keep the fear of the Lord and grow old therein." And in Tobias it is said that Tobias begot a son, "whom from his infancy he taught to fear God." This lesson, therefore, is for all.”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 2
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10And when we were carried away captives to Nineve, all my brethren and those that were of my kindred did eat of the bread of the Gentiles.
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8And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
9Furthermore, when I was come to the age of a man, I married Anna of mine own kindred, and of her I begat Tobias.