The early Christians called those who practiced a godly guilelessness, children, as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Expositions of the Lord's Oracles, and by Clement of Alexandria in his Paedagogue.
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Fragments of Papias and Quadratus 2
Fragments
About Fragments of Papias and Quadratus
An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.