11 of whom (John 16:12); Heb. 7:1–22we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become (Matt. 13:15)dull of hearing.
Spiritual Immaturity
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 1 Cor. 3:1–3; 1 Pet. 2:2milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is Eph. 4:14a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, thatis, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised Is. 7:15; Phil. 1:9to discern both good and evil.