And the child which He set in the midst I suppose to have been a very young child indeed, free from all these passions. For such a little child is free from pride and the mad desire of glory, and envy, and contentiousness, and all such passions, and having many virtues, simplicity, humility, unworldliness,prides itself upon none of them; which is a twofold severity of goodness; to have these things, and not to be puffed up about them.