Matthew 19:13
Douay-Rheims
Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them.
Hilary of Poitiers
The infants are a type of the Gentiles, to whom salvation is rendered by faith and hearing. But the disciples, in their first zeal for the salvation of Israel, forbid them to approach, but the Lord declares that they are not to be forbidden. For the gift of the Holy Ghost was to be conferred upon the Gentiles by laying on of hands, as soon as the Law had ceased.
Source details
A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 19:13-15
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.