{"id":1736,"date":"2012-06-02T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2023-05-24T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:13:53","slug":"hebrews-511-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Hebrews 5:11-14"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

of whom (v.11) \u2014 Jesus Christ in His Melchizedekian priesthood<\/h3>\n

have become (v.11) = are become \u2014 at a point in the past they grasped the truth (Hebrews 6:4<\/span><\/a> \u2014 enlightened)<\/h3>\n

dull (v.11) = lazy, sluggish \u2014 same as “slothful” (Hebrews 6:12<\/span><\/a>) \u2014 lit. “no push”<\/h3>\n

hard to explain (v.11) \u2014 not because of the subject but because of the audience<\/h3>\n

They should have been teachers, but they still needed to be taught.<\/h3>\n

by this time (v.12) \u2014 by reason of the time \u2014 considering how long they’d been receiving instruction<\/h3>\n

again (v.12) \u2014 refers to “need” (not to “teach”)<\/h3>\n

first principles (v.12) \u2014 elementary truths, rudimentary ideas<\/h3>\n

oracles (v.12) \u2014 utterances of revelation \u2014 see Acts 7:38<\/span><\/a><\/span>; Romans 3:2<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

milk (v.13) \u2014 Adults drink milk, but it is not their exclusive diet as it is with babies<\/span><\/h3>\n

unskilled (v.13) = inexperienced<\/span><\/h3>\n

babe (v.13) = immature \u2014 in contrast with mature<\/span><\/h3>\n

by reason of use (v.14) \u2014 habitual practice<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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