“Celsus, … as one who has heard the subject of humility greatly talked about but who has not been at pains to understand it, would wish to speak evil of that humility that is practiced among us, and imagines that it is borrowed from some words of Plato imperfectly understood, where he expresses himself in the Laws as f…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — AGAINST CELSUS 6:15
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2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
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In context
1Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
— Psalms 131:2 —
3Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.