Wisdom And Humility

Quia abscondisti haec sapientibus et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis. Gratias agit et exsultat in Patre quod apostolis adventus sui aperuerit sacramenta, quae ignoraverunt scirbae et Pharisaei, qui sibi sapientes videntur et in conspectu suo prudentes. Justificata sapientia a filiis suis. Ubi pulchre sapientibus et prudentibus non insipientes et hebetes, sed parvulos, id est humiles, opposuit, ut probaret se tumorem damnasse non acumen: quia haec est clavis de qua alibi dicit: Tulistis clavem scientiae, id est, humilitatem fidei Christi, quia ad divinitatis ejus agnitionem pervenire poteratis, spernentes, abjicere maluistis. Rabanus Maurus, Commentariorum In Matthaeum, Lib IV, Cap XI Source: Migne PL 107.915d

Because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to little ones. 1 He gives thanks and exults in the Father, that His coming Has opened up the mysteries to the Apostles, of which the Scribes and Pharisees were ignorant, they who seemed wise to themselves and prudent in their own sight. 'Wisdom is justified by her sons.' 2 Where beautifully those opposed to the wise and prudent are not the stupid and the dull, but little ones, that is, the humble, that He might prove that they have condemned themselves with their foolish swelling up, because humility is the key, concerning which it is said elsewhere: 'You have taken away the key of knowledge.' 3 that is, spurning the humility of the faith of Christ, by which you were able to come to understanding of His Divinity, you prefered to cast it away. Rabanus Maurus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 4, Chap 11 1 Mt 11.25 2 Mt 11.19 3 Lk 11.52