"níños, con barbas"
Escolios: Folio 1, Side 2: Lines 21–25
In this passage, Ximénez likens his native parishioners to children, calling them “níños, con barbas.” He characterizes their disposition by citing Saint Paul (“como S. Pablo deçía de sí de su hedad pueril”), in an allusion to 1 Corinthians 13:11:
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.”