 | Edward Howard Griggs - Aesthetics - 1913 - 358 pages
...hand, one may be deeply wise and quite without ordinary learning. That is what Jesus meant when he said: "I thank thee, O Father, . . . that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." * To enter the kingdom of truth one must... | |
 | John Neville Figgis - Christianity - 1914 - 328 pages
...intellectualist may pour scorn on others, intellectualism is always oligarchic : and our Lord did say, " I thank Thee, O Father, .... that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes,"1 and He must have meant something by His... | |
 | Curtis Williford Reese - Humanism - 1927 - 300 pages
...appropriate conduct. There were good ethics, good spirituality, and no theology in the utterance of Jesus: "I thank Thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes." Given equal ability in other directions, the... | |
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I thank thee, O Father, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto the babes ; even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. 
