The Problem of Immaturity

11 We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand. 12 Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.(A) 13 Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.(B)

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11 On peri this hos subject we hēmeis have much polys · ho to say logos and kai it is hard dysermēneutos to explain legō, since epei you have become ginomai sluggish nōthros in ho understanding akoē. 12 · kai For gar though by dia this ho time chronos you ought opheilō to be eimi teachers didaskalos, you have echō need chreia of someone tis to teach didaskō you hymeis again palin · ho the ho basic archē elements stoicheion · ho of ho God’ s theos revelation logion. · ho · kai You have become ginomai people having echō need chreia of milk gala, not ou solid stereos food trophē; 13 for gar everyone pas who ho lives on metechō milk gala is inexperienced apeiros with the teaching logos about righteousness dikaiosynē, since gar he is eimi still a child nēpios. 14 But de solid stereos food trophē is eimi for the mature teleios, · ho for those ho who by virtue of dia their ho maturity hexis have echō · ho senses aisthētērion that are trained gymnazō to pros distinguish diakrisis good kalos from kai evil kakos.

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