Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Frères, ne soyez pas des enfants sous le rapport du jugement; mais pour la malice, soyez enfants, et, à l'égard du jugement, soyez des hommes faits.
KJV
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
hat the perfection of the Christian life does not consist chiefly in charity. For the Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 14:20 ): "In malice be children, but in sense be perfect." But charity regards not the senses but the affections. Therefore it would seem that the perfection of the Christi…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)
atur. Simus in malitia parvuli [Note: [Col. 0245D] 47 Simus in malitia parvuli. Juxta illud Pauli I Cor. XIV, 20: Fratres, nolite pueri effici sensibus, sed malitia parvuli estote: sensibus autem perfecti estote. Quem in locum Chrysostomus: «Quid est esse parvulos seu infante…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)
sse pueros, in quibusdam esse senes. Senes prudentia, malitia pueros.] , et viri perfecti in sensu (I Cor. XIV, 20) . In quibusdam vero nos exhibeamus senes, in quibusdam juvenes: quia parvuli [Note: [Col. 0245] Ven. parvulis . . . perfectis a viris.] est [Note: [Col. 0246B] Pa…
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