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The child grew, etc
The Jews marked the stages of a child's development by nine different terms: the new-born babe (Isa 9:6); the suckling (Isa 11:8); the suckling beginning to ask for food (Lam 4:4); the weaned child (Isa 28:9); the child clinging to its mother (Jer 44:7); the child becoming firm and strong (Isa 7:14, of the virgin-mother); the youth, literally, he that shakes himself free; the ripened one, or warrior (Isa 31:8).