For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the rudimentary principles of the Words of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their understanding exercised to discern both good and evil.

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain with words, since you have become dull of hearing.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the rudimentary principles of the Words of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.