My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
Ver. 4. My manner of life from my youth] And although with some, Principium fervet, medium leper, exitus alget, their best is at first, as Nero (who now reigned at Rome) for his first five years was very hopeful; yet that is not ordinary. A good beginning hath for the most part a good ending, and a young saint proves an old angel.