When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.