Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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Ignatius of Antioch
AD 108
Timothy the Christ-bearer was young, but hear what his teacher writes to him: "Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers in word and in conduct."