Matthew 19:14
Douay-Rheims
But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
The flesh as it delights not in good, if it hear any good readily forgets it; but the evil that it has it retains ever. But a little while before Christ took a little child and said, Except ye become as this child, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, (Matt. 18:3.) yet His disciples, presently forgetting this innocence of children, now forbid children, as unworthy to come to Christ.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 19:13-15
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.