²¹ It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.

³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart `are' things of understanding.

⁴ I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

²⁵ At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

¹⁷ for verily I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men did desire to see that which ye look on, and they did not see, and to hear that which ye hear, and they did not hear.

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

⁷ but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

⁸ which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

⁹ but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --'

¹⁰ but to us did God reveal `them' through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

³ in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,