'Babes' in the Bible
At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:
and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: did ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou has perfected praise?
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.
And they were bringing unto him also their babes, that he should touch them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;