Brethren, do not become children in understanding; yet in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

And they who ate were four thousand men, besides children and women.

And they who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

I write to you, fathers, because ye know him that was from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, my children, because ye know the Father.

that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and borne about by every wind of teaching, through the dishonest tricks of men, and their cunning in the wily arts of error;