When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are' vanity!
and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.'
and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless.
for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
And Samuel hath not yet known Jehovah, and the word of Jehovah is not yet revealed unto him.