Chapter VIII. I Salute Him Who Is Reckoned Worthy to Go to Antioch in My Stead, as I Commanded Thee · Fragments of Papias

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[The early Christians] called those who practised a godly guilelessness,¹⁷⁴¹ children, [as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Lord's Expositions, and by Clemens Alexandrinus in his Pædagogue.]

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This fragment is found in the Scholia of Maximus on the works of Dionysius the Areopagite.
1741
Literally, "a guilelessness according to God."

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.