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.