Apostles hunt childish Jews off the broad way
For by the Savior having been appointed “fishers of human beings,” they were hunting Jews childish in thoughts, not to walk the broad and roomy road of their fathers—whom indeed the Savior also was hinting saying: “let the children come to me.”
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 4, 18. Υπὸ γὰρ τοῦ σωτῆρος >ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων< ἀποδειχθέντες οἱ ἐθήρευον Ἰουδαίους ταῖς φρεσὶ νηπίους, μὴ τὴν πλατεῖαν καὶ εὐρύχωρον τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν βαδίζειν ὁδόν· οὓσπερ δὴ καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ ὑπῃνίττετο λέγων· «ἐάσατε τὰ παιδία ἐλθεῖν πρός με.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).
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