“Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”
We have much to say about this, and it is hard to explain because you have become dull of hearing — the author acknowledges the difficulty of the Melchizedek argument but attributes the difficulty not to complexity alone but to the readers' spiritual lethargy. Their capacity to receive such exalted teaching is compromised by their spiritual inattentiveness.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 5:11
“Being called,” he says, “of God an High Priest after the order of Melchisedech”: Hebrews 5:11 “Of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered [or explained].” When he was about to proceed to the difference of the Priesthood, he first reproves them, pointing out both that such great condescension was “milk,” and that it was because they were children that he dwelt longer on the lowly subject, relating to the flesh, and speaks [about Him] as about any righteous man.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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