Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I And the expression, "When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spoke as a child,"[70] "When I became a man," again Paul says, "I put away childish things."[72] Tertullian On Modesty "When I was a child," he says, "as a child I spake, as a child I understood; but when I became a man, those (things) which had been the child's I abandoned: "[11] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes When one is a child, he thinks as a child, he speaks as a child; but when he becomes a mature man, those things are to be done away which are proper for a child:[580] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI For there are, I think, even in sensible foods differences, so that some of them belong to those who "have put away childish things,"[17] and the men according to the saying, "When I am become a man I have put away childish things."[22] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII for we must think that he attains unto a man, and that full-grown, according to the inner man, who has gone through the things of the child, and has reached the stage of the man, and has put away the things of the child, and generally, has perfected the things of the man.[154]