Jerome, on Matt 19:13

“Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.”

“Not because they liked not that they should have benediction of the Saviour’s hand and mouth; but forasmuch as their faith was not yet perfect, they thought that He like other men would be wearied by the applications of those that brought them.”

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