And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.
Glossa Ordinaria
"Yet nothing childish." Already he bore in his breast that apostolic saying: "Be not made children, etc." But this was said in accordance with those who walked in the commandments of the Lord without blame, according to that rule of Tyconius, by which, treating them as though of one and the same, sometimes on account of the good we praise all, sometimes on account of the bad we blame all, which is the second rule.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.