When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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Basil the Great
AD 379
“When I was a child”—that is, fresh from committing to memory the first elements of the divine Word—“I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But now that I have become a man”—that is, and am hastening to attain the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ—“I have put away the things of a child.” .
