“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,” said Jesus, “for you have hidden these things from the wise and keen of understanding, and you have revealed them to INNOCENTS.” It’s hard to translate the Greek noun NEPIOS there: CHILDREN, or BABES – with the suggestion that they do not know things, as in our phrase BABES IN THE WOODS. The early Modern…
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