And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
To whom are they brought to be touched, but to the Savior? And as being the Savior they are presented to Him to be saved, who came to save that which was lost. But with regard to these innocents, when w ere they lost? The Apostle says, By one mansin entered into the world. Let then the little children come as the sick to a physician, the lostto their Redeemer.