I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
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Gill's Exposition
I have fed you with milk,.... It is usual with the Jews to compare the law to milk, and they say (c), that
"as milk strengthens and nourishes an infant, so the law strengthens and nourishes the…
Barnes' Notes
I have fed you with milk - Paul here continues the metaphor, which is derived from the custom of feeding infants with the lightest food. Milk here evidently denotes the more simple and elementary…
Adam Clarke
I have fed you with milk - I have instructed you in the elements of Christianity - in its simplest and easiest truths; because from the low state of your minds in religious knowledge, you were…
Here, I. Paul blames the Corinthians for their weakness and nonproficiency. Those who are sanctified are so only in part: there is still room for growth and increase both in grace and knowledge, Pe2…