...them ; and that this defect in them prevented him from attempting to lay before them these riches. I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye 'were not...

...that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ. CHAP. III. Paul commends his ministry. ND 1, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not...

...that he may instruct him!? but we have the mind of Christ. CHAP. III. CHRISTIANS ARE COD'S TEMPLE. AND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye were...

...speaking of spiritual men as "judging all things," and as " having the mind of Christ," adds, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal ; even as unto babes in Christ." And this, their carnality, is represented as rendering them unable...

...them ; and that this defect in them prevented him from attempting to lay before them these riches. /, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : jor hitherto ye were not...

...Milk is Jit for children. 3 Against divisions. 16 Mat the temples of God. 18 Against conceit.' \ ND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for liitherto ye were...

...passions, it shows weakness, .instead of strength and fortitude. 1 Cor. lii. at the beginning, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. For ye are yet carnal : For whereas there is among you envying, and strife,...

...may grow thereby." 1 Pet. ii- 2. So the apostle Paul, when writing to the Corinthians, says, . " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." 1 Cor. iii. 1. So again to the Hebrews. " For every one that useth milk...

...connexion plainly shews mean the same, as soiritual men and natural men, in the foregoing verses ; " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal ;" ie as in a great measure unsanctified. That by carnal the apostle means corrupt and imsanctified,...

...that be his renewed and faithful ones, we have the will of Christ clearly revealed unto us. III. 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. And I, brethren, howsoever I may be taxed and despised by some, as if...