Paul reproves the Corinthians because they were like children, and therefore they could not take strong food, but were fed with milk. (1 Cor. 3:1.) Almost the same words are found in Heb. 5:12. But in these passages those are compared to children who remain always novices and ignorant scholars in the doctrine of religion, who continued in the first elements, and never penetrated into the higher knowledge of God. Milk is called the simpler mode of teaching, and one suitable to children, when there