² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able `to bear it': nay, not even now are ye able;

¹² I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

² as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

¹¹ Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

¹² For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

¹³ For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.

¹⁴ But solid food is for fullgrown men, `even' those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.