Hebrews 5:12

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers That is, "though you ought, by this time, to be teachers, considering how long a time has elapsed since your conversion." The passage is important as bearing on the date of the Epistle.

ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles Rather, "ye again have need that borne one teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God." It is uncertain whether we should read τινὰ "that some oneteach you" or τίνα "that (one) teach you which are." The difference in sense is not great, but perhaps the indefinite "some one" enhances the irony of a severe remark. For the word "rudiments" see Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9.

the oracles of God Here not the O.T. as in Romans 3:2.

such as have need of milk So the young students or neophytes in the Rabbinic schools were called thînokoth"sucklings." Philo (De Agric.Opp. i. 301) has this comparison of preliminary studies to milk, as well as St Paul, 1 Corinthians 3:1-2.

strong meat Rather, "solid food."