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The Child
The little one who enters first — every tradition turns the great upside down when it makes the child the model of the saint.
Judaism
"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength..."
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb... and a little child shall lead them."
Christianity
"...Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
"...Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child..."