7221. ‘Et mittat filios Israelis e terra sua’: quod significet ut abeant et relinquant illos, constat ex significatione ‘mittere’ quod sit abire et relinquere; ex repraesentatione ‘filiorum Israelis’ quod sint qui ab Ecclesia spirituali, de qua saepe; et a significatione ‘terrae Aegypti’ quod sit status infestationum; ex quibus patet quod per ‘mittat filios Israelis e terra sua’ significetur quod relinquant illos qui ab Ecclesia spirituali, nec infestent.

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.