And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. A View of Religions in Three Parts ... - Page 25by Hannah Adams - 1805 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Law Pomeroy - Sermons, American - 1826 - 332 pages
...church at Corinth, when the apostle wrote this epistle. His own words will give us the best information. And I brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...but as unto carnal; even as unto babes in Christ. As he did not deny, that the church was a church of Christ; he admitted the members to be, in a measure,... | |
| Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - Bible - 1826 - 870 pages
...to the capacities and opinions of those whom they are instructing. So St. Paul, 1 Cor. 3, 1, 2. " I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat." For he could not, by reason of their weakness, (Euthym.)... | |
| Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - Bible - 1826 - 878 pages
...to the capacities and opinions of those whom they are instructing. So St. Paul, 1 Cor. 3, 1, 2. " I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat." For he could not, by reason of their weakness. (Euthym.)... | |
| 1827 - 512 pages
...For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him ? but we have the mind of Christ. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat. For hitherto ye were not able to bear if, neither yet... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...xii. 20, 21. Blaming even their backwardness and slow progress in christian knowledge and virtues. " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ ; I have fed you with milk, and not with meat — for ye are yet carnal ; for whereas there is among... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1827 - 556 pages
...things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now ; ' and in Paul's language to the Corinthians, ' I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed. 1 COR. iii. 1 : I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 PET. iii. 16 : In which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and... | |
| Theology - 1827 - 560 pages
...things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now;' and in Paul's language to the Corinthians, ' I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet... | |
| 1827 - 524 pages
...hath known the mind of the Lord, that- he may instruct him ?• but we have the mind of Christ. • And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, evert as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat. For hitherto .ye were not... | |
| Baptists - 1827 - 676 pages
...self-will, ambition, and love of applause, on the other ! Surely the apostles would not write unto us " as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ !" Surely we can be but children, if we stumble so frequently when a twig lies in our path ! These... | |
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