Josiah - And with
Jedidah for his mother, and with Jeremiah for his minister, both Manasseh his grandfather and Amon his father taken together did not succeed in corrupting and destroying young Josiah. ' With Jeremiah every Sabbath-day among the ruins of the temple, and with
Jedidah every week-day at home, notwithstanding all Josiah's drawbacks and heart-breaks,-or, rather, because of them,-I do not wonder that Josiah soon became the very best sovereign that had ever sat on the throne of David. Neither David's God, nor
Jedidah's God, nor Jeremiah's God will suffice for Josiah. Monica's son, like
Jedidah's son, had drunk in the name of Jesus Christ with his mother's milk; and all the folly of philosophy, and all the sweetness of sensuality could never seduce nor satisfy Augustine's heart. And so it has been, and so it will be, with thousands of the sons of mothers like
Jedidah, and with thousands of the scholars and young communicants of ministers like Jeremiah and Zephaniah
Josiah - " Since Amon was wicked it is likely that
Jedidah ("beloved"), like Lois and Eunice (2 Timothy 1:5), had early instilled into her child pious principles which bore fruit betimes, for in spite of the closing error which cost him his life the Holy Spirit, who remembers the graces and ignores the exceptional fails of believers, testifies "he declined neither to the right hand nor to the left