A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent. "Children" are sometimes used as a name for a large group of descendants of one person, such as the Children of Israel, or even all human beings as the Children of Men. A child represents innocence and charity, where innocence is the willingness to be led, and charity is love. This is why Jesus blessed them and suggested that we all become like children in order to enter heaven.

In John 8:2-11, when the woman taken in adultery was brought before him, the Lord wrote twice on the ground. This signifies the condemnation of the scribes and Pharisees for adulteries in a spiritual sense, they having adulterated the goods and falsified the truths of the Word. (Apocalypse Explained 222)