The Child And The Man

Τό, Ως νήπιος ἐλάλουν, ὡς νήπιος ἐφρόνουν, εἰρημένον τῷ θεόφρονι Παύλῳ περὶ τῆς κατὰ νόμον ἀγωγῆς αὐτῷ γέγραπται, καθ ' ἣν ὡς νήπιος λαλῶν, ἐφύλαττε τὸν νόμον νηπίοις δεδομένον, ὡς νήπιος φρονῶν, ἐδίωκε τὸν λόγον , ἀμύνων τοῖς τοῦ νόμου. Οτε δὲ γέγονα, φησίν, ἀνήρ, τὰ τοῦ νηπίου κατάήργηκα, οὐδὲ τὸν νόμον ἀκυρῶν, καὶ τοῦ λόγου κατηχών. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΥΜΓ', Ἰσιδωρῳ Διακονῳ Source: Migne 78.425c

That 'I spoke as a child, I thought as I child,' 1 spoken by the blessed Paul was written about the discipline of the law according to which he was speaking like a child and given to the service of the law like a child, so that thinking as a child he opposed the Word and defended the law. 'But come the man,' he says, 'and the things of the child pass away,' which is not to annul the law but to be instructed by the Word. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 443, To Isidore The Deacon 1 1 Cor 13.11