Strong meat; the more difficult parts of divine truth.
Of full age; of greater experience and knowledge of divine things.
To discern; to distinguish between truth and error, good and evil. Even Christians at first, and often for a long time, are ignorant of many things clearly revealed in the word of God, known by those who have made greater advances in the divine life, and which, where God gives opportunity, ought to be known by all.
Verse Hebrews 5:14. _BUT STRONG MEAT_] The high and sublime doctrines of Christianity; the atonement, justification by faith, the gift of the Holy Ghost, the fulness of Christ dwelling in the souls o...
STRONG MEAT - Solid food pertains to those of maturer years. So it is with the higher doctrines of Christianity. They can be understood and appreciated only by those who are advanced in Christian expe...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. What the High Priest is and represents (Hebrews 5:1)_ 2. The fulfillment in Christ made High Priest (Hebrews 5:5) 3. The spiritual condition of the Hebrew-Christians (Hebrews 5:11)...
AT HOME WITH MAN AND GOD (Hebrews 5:1-10)...
The story which has been laid upon me to tell you about this matter is a long story, difficult to tell and difficult to grasp, for your ears have become dull. For, indeed, at a stage when you ought to...
OF FULL AGE. Greek. _teleios._ App-123. USE. Greek. _hexis._ App-125. Only here. SENSES. Greek. _aistheterion._ Compare Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:9. EXERCISED. trained. Greek. _gumnazo._ See...
_belongeth to them that are of full age_ The solid food of more advanced instruction pertains to the mature or "perfect." _by reason of use_ "Because of their habit," i.e. from being habituated to it...
ΤΕΛΕΊΩΝ. The solid food of more advanced instruction pertains to the mature or “perfect.” ΔΙᾺ ΤῊΝ ἝΞΙΝ, “_because of their habit_,” i.e. from being habituated to it. This is the only place in the N....
COMPLAINT THAT HIS READERS WERE SO SLOW IN THEIR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS...
CH. 5. TWO QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIGH PRIESTHOOD: (1) CAPACITY FOR SYMPATHY (1–3); (2) A SPECIAL CALL (4–10). SPIRITUAL DULNESS OF THE HEBREWS (11–14)...
_THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST WAS UNAPPRECIATED -- HEBREWS 5:11-14:_ The Hebrew writer had many "things to say" concerning Christ and Melchizedek. Sadly the Christians were "dull of hearing" and could not...
ΤΈΛΕΙΟΣ (G5046) совершенный, зрелый. Тот, кто может принять на себя ответственность взрослого человека. Автор использует термины, относящиеся к развитию человека, чтобы описать развитие веры читателей...
DISCOURSE: 2288 THE SLOW PROGRESS OF MANY REPROVED Hebrews 5:11. We have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye ha...
THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE,— Τε ειων. So _we speak wisdom to them that are_ perfect, τοις τελειοις. See the note on 1 Corinthians 2:6. Those therefore who are here called _of full age,_ are the same as...
II. _Necessity of growth in knowledge in order to realize the hope of the priesthood. Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 6:20_. A. Difficulty of explaining the priesthood because of the low stage of the knowle...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO AARON. (Hebrews 5:11-14) At the close of our last article we pointed out that the 10th verse of Hebrews 5 forms the juncture of the two divisions of that chapter. In the first sect...
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE, [ teleion (G5046)] - '...
1 The chief priest in Israel was able to sympathize with the human frailties of the people because he himself had the same, and sinned, like the rest. But Christ's sufferings, unspeakably more trying...
HUMAN BROTHERHOOD AND DIVINE APPOINTMENT The High Priesthood of Christ. The argument now resolves itself into a discussion of Christ's priesthood in comparison with the Levitical priesthood, which is...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 RULES FOR THE CHIEF PRIEST 5:1-4 V1 All chief priests are *human. They act as agents between other *humans and God. The chief priest ha...
STRONG MEAT. — “Solid food belongs to full-grown men.” If they occupied themselves with the rudiments alone, their spiritual senses could not be trained by use (or, _habit_) in distinguishing between...
CHAPTER V. THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF RENEWAL. "Of Whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers,...
τελείων δὲ.… “But solid food is for the mature, those who, by reason of their mental habits, have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.” τέλειος commonly opposed in classical and Biblical G...
Complaint of their sluggishness of mind....
“PRESS ON UNTO FULL GROWTH” Hebrews 5:11; Hebrews 6:1 The teacher has to suit his pace to his scholars. How much we miss because we are such inapt pupils! Milk is food which has passed through anothe...
The writer proceeded with the same argument as he instituted a contrast. The two essential qualifications of a priest are capacity for sympathy, and the vocation of God. These are perfectly fulfilled...
THE FAILURE OF THE HEBREW CHRISTIANS TO GROW SPIRITUALLY The subject of Christ's priesthood is one so complex it is difficult to write about. A difficulty which was complicated by the dullness of the...
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their (m) senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (m) All their power by which they understand a...
REFLECTIONS Precious great High Priest of thy people! Lord! I would hail thee as both my Priest, Altar, and Sacrifice. Thou wert indeed taken from among men: for in thy human nature, thou were alone s...
(9) And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; (10) Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. (11) Of whom we have many things to...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
14._Of full age, _or _perfect, etc. _He calls those perfect who are adults; he mentions them in opposition to babes, as it is done in 1 Corinthians 2:6; Ephesians 4:13. For the middle and manly age is...
The epistle then develops the priesthood of the Lord Jesus, comparing it with that of Aaron; but, as we shall see, with a view to bring out the difference rather than the resemblance between them, alt...
BUT STRONG MEAT BELONGETH TO THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE,.... Or perfect; see 1 Corinthians 2:6. This does not intend a perfection of justification; for though some have a greater degree of faith than o...
The three ensuing verses, as they all treat of the same matter with that foregoing, so they have all the same design in themselves, and cannot be severed in their exposition. The reasons of the reproo...
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, _even_ those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Ver. 14. _To them that are of full age_] Or that a...
HEB. 5:14. BUT STRONG MEAT BELONGETH TO THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE, (EVEN) THOSE WHO BY REASON OF USE HAVE THEIR SENSES EXERCISED TO DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL....
_Of whom_, &c. The apostle here begins an important digression, wherein he reproves, admonishes, and exhorts the believing Hebrews; _we_ Apostles and other ministers of the word; _have many things to...
A REPROOF OF SPIRITUAL IGNORANCE....
BUT STRONG MEAT BELONGETH TO THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE, EVEN THOSE WHO BY REASON OF USE HAVE THEIR SENSES EXERCISED TO DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL. According to the tendency of the last passage, we mig...
"For every High Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins." The apostle of course refers to the priesthood of Aa...
OF FULL AGE: Or, perfect OF USE: Or, of an habit, or perfection...
11-14 Dull hearers make the preaching of the gospel difficult, and even those who have some faith may be dull hearers, and slow to believe. Much is looked for from those to whom much is given. To be...
OLBGrk; BUT STRONG MEAT BELONGETH TO THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE; but those great, deep, and high mysteries of the gospel concerning Christ's natures, their hypostatical union, his offices, his actual f...
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Twelfth If you serve good desire, and be subject to it, you will gain the mastery over evil desire, and make it subject to you even as you wish."[6] Clement of Alexand...
Hebrews 5:14 But G1161 solid G4731 food G5160 are G2076 (G5748) age G5046 reason G1223 use G1838 have...
Hebrews 5:13-14 give the reason why the further teaching is hard to explain. FOR EVERY ONE WHO USETH MILK (takes it as his ordinary food, and can digest nothing else) IS UNSKILLED (literally, inexper...
CHAP. Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 6:20. The writer, knowing how unprepared his readers were to admit that the Aaronic priesthood was inferior to that of Melchisedec and to that of Christ (who was the anti...
FOR FULL-GROWN MEN (τελειων). Predicate genitive. The word is for adults, relative perfection (τελειο) in contrast with babes as in 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 13:11;...
Hebrews 5:11-6 Growth in Grace and Knowledge. I. The comparison between a newly-converted man and a babe is, like all comparisons, imperfect. For, in one sense, a Christian is born by the Holy Ghost...
Hebrews 5:1. _For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:_ Notice that the high priests were take...
CONTENTS: Christ, our Great High Priest after the order of Melchisedec. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Aaron, Melchisedec. CONCLUSION: God was pleased to take One from among men, His only begotten Son, who...
Hebrews 5:1. _Every highpriest taken from among men is ordained for men._ He is to officiate in all the hallowed services of the sanctuary, to offer the mincha, or oblations and gifts of thanksgiving,...
WHO HAVE TRAINED AND USED THEIR TASTES. "The child must eat whatever is given to it; the boy is warned what to eat and what to avoid; as he grows, he learns by his experience, so that when he is grown...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 5:12 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD. The most basic truths about God. MILK vs. SOLID FOOD shows the readers’ immaturity in the faith....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 5:11. HARD TO BE UTTERED.—R.V. “hard of interpretation.” But the difficulty was mainly due to the spiritual incapacity of those to whom the epistle was written...
EXPOSITION THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST. The purpose of the first part of this chapter (Hebrews 5:1) is to corroborate the position arrived at in the conclusion of Hebrews 4:1., viz. that we _have _in Ch...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Hebrews 5 At the end of chapter 4, the author of Hebrews introduced the idea of Jesus being our great High Priest. "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, tha...
1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Kings 3:11;...
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age [τ ε λ ε ι ω ν δ ε ε σ τ ι ν η σ τ ε ρ ε α τ ρ ο φ η]. This rendering is clumsy. Rend. solid food is for full - grown men. For teleiwn full - grown,...
But strong meat — These sublimer truths relating to "perfection," Hebrews 6:1. Belong to them of full age, who by habit — Habit here signifies strength of spiritual understanding, arising from maturit...