Who Said It

Being in the middle of teaching the 10 Commandments on Wednesday nights to children anywhere from age three on up through age eleven (try tayloring your lesson for that age spectrum sometime!), and having just taught on the 5th commandment (honoring your father and mother), I thought this quote was a good one to post today. Do you know who this is from?

Therefore, as every one complains, the course of the world now is such that both young and old are altogether dissolute and beyond control, have no reverence nor sense of honor, do nothing except as they are driven to it by blows, and perpetrate what wrong and detraction they can behind each other’s back; therefore God also punishes them, that they sink into all kinds of filth and misery. As a rule, the parents, too, are themselves stupid and ignorant; one fool trains [teaches] another, and as they have lived, so live their children after them.

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