When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Ver. 11. When I was a child] Adrian VI, before he became pope, taxed the Church of Rome for many errors; but afterwards, being desired to reform them, he wickedly abused these words for an answer, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, &c., but now being a man," &c.