Reference: Child, Children
Hastings
CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law: and a man's enemies shall be those of his own household. read more. He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me: and whoever does not take his cross and fol low after me, is not worthy of me.
At that time Jesus answered and said: I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.
and said: Verily I say to you, Unless you turn and become as little children, you can not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Thus has the Lord dealt with me in the days in which he has looked with regard upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
and am no longer worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants.
A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow, be cause her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the pain, for joy that a man is born into the world.