2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
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Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. …
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here, I. Paul blames the Corinthians for their weakness and nonproficiency. Those who are sanctified are so only in part: there is still room for growth and increase both in grace and knowledge, 2 Pet. 3:18. Those who through divine grace are renewed to a spiritual life may yet in many things be defective. The apostle tells them he could not speak to them as unto spiritual men, but as unto carnal…
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