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11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
More to say about what?
He wants to go deeper in the study of something...
The context would tell us that the author has the Jesus Melchizedek typology in mind.
How is Jesus the true priest/king in the same way Melchizedek was?
If Melchizedek is a type of Christ in the OT, what else might have the author of hebrews liked to have taught them regarding typology in the OT.
Maybe he would have liked to talk about how
Jonah
Samson
Jacob
Adam
Tabernacle
Creation
David
Daniel
Joseph
Moses
Jehu
Elijah
However, this deeper understanding of the bible would be lost on these Christians.
And why would it be lost? because they are dull of hearing
dull (gk. νωθρός) = lazy or a sluggard in their understanding.
Studying the bible takes work, its hard work.
one of the great threats against the church today is to get rid of the bible because its too hard to understand.
Unhitch from the OT because its too weird, not relevant etc.
We should be hearing from God outside the bible etc.
Those who are νωθρός toward the bible are those who fail to be formed by the bible.
many pastors struggle with being νωθρός because they stoop learning. Sermons are pulled from the cup of their theological understanding from their days in seminary.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
By this time you ought to be teachers.
If these people were not lazy and sluggish in their understanding of God’s word, they would by this time be teachers in the church.
to be a teacher is more than someone who has a lot of knowledge, but it is someone who is mature, someone who has grown up in the faith, they are no longer children in the faith, but grown mature adults in the faith.
However, these people have not grown up, because of their lazy and sluggish minds they are in NEED of someone to teach them again the basic principles of the oracles of God.
What are the basic principles?
1 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
You NEED milk not meat.
He is calling them children in the faith that are unable to eat the meat of the word, but instead must need the milk
Milk = repentance from dead works, faith toward God, instructions about baptism, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgement.
Meat = Melchizedek typology. Typology is the meat of the word.
typology is how we understand how the bible works
typology is the path toward maturity in the bible and in life.
13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
to be unskilled literally means to not have experiences, or to not be tested. This is experiential skill.
If you have not learned to read or study the bible, than you are unskilled, untested, in need of milk, a child.
(he is not talking to children right here, he is talking to those who should be teachers)
14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Heb
So milk is for those who are children in the faith, and meat is for those who are mature.
What does it look like to be mature?
those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Trained by constant practice
trained γυμνάζω = english word gymnasium
constant practice (hexis) = maturity; mature state of mind
Now there are three three groups of people in the passage
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Maturity
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Those who hear (dull of hearing)
Those who distinguish good from evil (wisdom)
Those who teach
Children need to hear
Adults need to do
Elders need to teach
Maturity through the offices in the bible
Those who hear = priest
Those who distinguish good from evil = king
Those who distinguish good from evil = king
Those who teach = prophet
Symbolic Animal
7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.
Ox = Priest
Lion = King
Eagle = Prophet
Man = New creation/Christ
Body part
Ox = Priest = Ears (hear)
Lion = King = Hands (skill)
Eagle =Prophet = Feet (movement)
Books of the Bible
Ox = Priest = Ears = Gen - Joshua
Lion = King = Hands = Judges - Kings
Eagle =Prophet = Feet = Prophetic books
OX
The OX verses:
The OX verses:
Able to hear
1 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
The Lion verses:
The Lion verses:
Knowledge of good and evil
9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
gen 2
temptation
5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
gen 3
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”
gen
deut 1
39 And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
11 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
2 coe 5 10
The Eagle verses:
Daniel - Jerusalem to Babylon
Jonah - went to Nineveh
Prophets travel beyond boarders
11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.