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Chapter
LIII.
For the word is used by our Paul in writing to the
Corinthians, who were Greeks, and not yet purified in their
morals: “I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for
hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able, for
ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and
strife, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”3595
Now the same writer,3596
| 3596 [See note
supra, p. 239. S.] | knowing that there was a certain kind of
nourishment better adapted for the soul, and that the food of those
young3597
persons who were admitted was compared to
milk, continues: “And ye are become such as have need of
milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is
unskilful in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. But
strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by
reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and
evil.”3598
Would then
those who believe these words to be well spoken, suppose that the noble
doctrines of our faith would never be mentioned in an assembly of wise
men, but that wherever (our instructors) see young men, and a mob of
slaves, and a collection of foolish individuals, they bring publicly
forward divine and venerable truths, and before such persons make a
display of themselves in treating of them? But it is clear to him
who examines the whole spirit of our writings, that Celsus is animated
with a hatred against the human race resembling that of the ignorant
populace, and gives utterance to these falsehoods without
examination.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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