Hebrews 5:14

Hebrews 5:14

Spiritual Immaturity

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the¹ oracles of God; and you have come to need ^amilk and not solid food.

13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is ^aa babe.

14 But solid food belongs to those who are¹ of full age, that is, those who by reason of² use have their senses exercised ^ato discern both good and evil.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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For full-grown men (teleiwn). Predicate genitive. The word is for adults, relative perfection (teleioi) in contrast with babes as in I Corinthians 2:6; I Corinthians 3:1; I Corinthians 13:11; Philippians 3:15; Ephesians 4:4, not absolute perfection (Matthew 5:48).

Their senses (ta aisqhthria). The organs of perception (Stoic term for sense organs) from aisqanomai (Luke 9:45), in Plato, Galen, Hippocrates, here only in N.T.

Exercised (gegumnasmena). Perfect passive participle of gumnazw, to exercise (naked, gumnov). Galen uses aisqhthria gegumnasmena together after exw as we have here. For this predicate use of the participle with exw see Luke 13:6; Luke 14:19 f. "By reason of use" one gains such skill.

To discern (prov diakrisin). "For deciding between" (from diakrinw), old word with ablative kalou te kai kakou (between good and evil). See I Corinthians 12:1; Romans 14:1.

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1 Timothy 2:5
1 Timothy 4:7
2 Timothy 2:19
Hebrews 6:1
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