'Babes' in the Bible
At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.
and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: yea, Father, for thus has it been well-pleasing in thy sight.
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:
And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.
Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.
in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;
as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,