[296] "For," says the scripture, "the mind of man is carefully devoted to evil from his youth." [191] This is that most accursed period which is figuratively called an age, but also especially the age of youth, in which the body is full of youthful vigour, and the soul is puffed up; the passions, which have hitherto lain hid, being now [192] fanned into a flame, and burning up the threshing-floors, and crops, and fields, and whatever they meet with.