A Lack Of Understanding

Quod abscondisti haec a sapientibus, et prudentibus et revelasti ea parvulis. Gratias agit, exsultat in Patre, quod apostolis adventus sui aperuerit sacramenta quae ignoraverint Scribae et Pharisaei, qui sibi sapientes videntur, et in conspectu suo prudentes. Justificata est sapientia a filiis suis. Ubi pulcher 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 dicit: Tulistis clavem scientiae, hoc est, humilitatem fidei Christi, qua ad divinitatis ejus agnitionem pervenire potertatis, spernentes abjicere maluistis. Sanctus Beda, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio, Liber III, Caput X Source: Migne PL 92.466c-d

Because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to children. 1 He gives thanks, He exults in the Father, because His coming will have opened the mysteries to the Apostles of which the Scribes and Pharisees were ignorant, they who seemed so wise to themselves and so prudent in their own sight. 'Wisdom is justified by her sons.' 2 Here quite beautifully He does not oppose the wise and prudent with the foolish and dull, but with children, that is, those who are humble, to show that they had condemned themselves by pride not by insight. And this is the key, concerning which He says, 'You have taken away the key of knowledge.' 3 that is, the humbleness of faith in Christ, because you were able to come to the understanding of His Divinity, but you preferred to spurn it and cast it down. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Book 3, Chapter 10 1 Lk 10.21 2 Lk 7.35 3 Lk 11.52