Am I not able to write to you of heavenly things ? But I fear to do so, lest I should inflict injury on you who are but babes [in Christ]. Pardon me in this respect, lest, as not being able to receive [such doctrines], ye should be strangled by them. For even I, though I am bound [for Christ] , yet am not on that account able to un- derstand heavenly things, and the places ■+ of the angels, and their gather- ings under their respective princes, things visible and invisible. Without reference to such abstruse subjects, I am still but a learner [in other re- spects 5] ; for many things are wanting to us, that we come not short of God.