...was reserved for those who had ears to hear and hearts to receive the treasures of heavenly wisdom. " I, brethren, could not speak unto you " as unto spiritual,...neither yet now are ye able. For ye are " yet carnal." By telling them then that they " are carnal," may we not conceive him to mean, that they had but imperfectly...

...wise." He seems to allude to their pretended spirituality and refinement, when he says, ver. 1, • 1 could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." He likewise speaks ironically of their pretensions to wisdom : iv. 10, " We are fools for Christ's...

...connection plainly shews mean the same, as spiritual men and natural men, in the foregoing verses ; And I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto SPIRITUAL, but as unto CARNAL; ie as in a great measure unsanctified*. Now therefore, if by natural and carnal, in these texts, be...

...of this very Epistle from which our text is taken, Saint Paul, addressing the Corinthians, says; " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." The Corinthian converts, then, had not advanced beyond the first principles of the oracles of God:...

...they not being able to digeft fuch as were more tough and S ERM. difficult : / have, faith St. Paul, fed you with milk, and not *• with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it— -for ye, cor.iii. ?. are yet carnal ; and, Ye, faith the Apoftle to the Hebrews, Heb. vn are fuch as...

...can be no presumption to say, that to commit to memory * Thus St. Paul addressed the Corinthians, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."— 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible, so convincing,...

...can be no presumption to say, that to commit to memory * Thus St. Paul addressed the Corinthians, " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."—1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible, so...

...many things to say unto you ; but ye cannot bear them now," St. John xvi. 12! And St Paul says—" And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...but as unto carnal ; even as unto babes in Christ : 1 have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye are not able to bear it ; neither yet...

...divisions among you ; for it hath been declared unto me of you, that there are contentions among you". And I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even a into babes in Christ*. For ye are yet carnal; for uhtircas there is among you envyings, and strife,...

...Corinth, that they were of little growth in grace ; such as were not past the child's spoon and meat : " I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto...neither yet now are ye able, for ye are yet carnal." 1 Cor. iii. 2. Nay, he conceives this to be so clear evidence, that he appeals to their consciences...