For might ' not I write to you things more full of mystery ? But I fear to do so, lest I should inflict injury on you who are but babes [in Christ]. Pardon me in this re- spect, lest, as not being able to receive their weighty im- port, ^ ye should be strangled by them. For even I, though I am bound [for Christ], and am able to understand heaven- ly things, the angelic orders, and the different sorts ^ of angels and hosts, the distinctions between powers and do- minions, and the diversities between thrones and author- ities, the mightiness of the yEons, and the pre-eminence of the cherubim and seraphim, the sublimity of the spirit, the kingdom of the Lord, and above all, the incomparable majesty of Almighty God — though I am acquainted with these things, yet am I not therefore by any means per- fect ; nor am I such a disciple as Paul or Peter. For many things are yet wanting to me, that I may not fall short of God.