“For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.”
Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness — the metaphor of infantilism extends: milk-drinkers lack even basic familiarity with righteousness. Spiritual maturity requires engagement with God's will and righteousness; stagnation produces ignorance.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 5:13
“For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.” What is “the Word [doctrine] of righteousness”? He seems to me here to hint at conduct also. That which Christ also said, “Unless your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees” Matthew 5:20, this he says likewise, “unskilled in the word of righteousness,” that is, he that is unskilled in the philosophy that is above, is unable to embrace a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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