the way.” To those who hesitate to believe, he says, “I am the truth.” To those who are already climbing, he says, “I am the life.” I think I have shown clearly enough from this chapter of the Gospel that the fruit of the knowledge of truth is humility. But listen to another text. “I praise you, Father of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things” (which surely means the secrets of truth), “from the knowing and prudent” (that is, the proud), “and revealed them to the little ones” (that