Hebrews 5:12

For ye ought to be teachers, on account of the time by you in learning; but now ye have need again to be taught those which are the first scriptures of the beginningwords of Aloha; and need have ye for milk, and not for solid food.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

In Context

11But concerning this Malki-Zedek himself, we have much discourse to utter, and hard to explain, because ye are infirm in your hearing.

13But every one whose food is milk is not versed in the doctrine of righteousness, because he is a babe.

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Cross References

Matthew 17:17Jeshu answered and said, O unbelieving and perverse generation! how long shall I be with you, how long shall I bear with you? Bring him hither to me.

Acts 7:38This is he who was with the congregation in the desert, with the angel himself who spake with him and with our fathers at the mountain of Sinai; and he it was who received the words of life to give (them) to us.

1 Corinthians 3:1AND I, my brethren, could not speak with you as with the spiritual, but as with the carnal, and as with babes in the Meshiha.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 5:11-14

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat… Read the whole commentary →

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