Milk... meat. — The use of the word “infant” naturally suggests these two images for the higher wisdom and for the simpler truths of the gospel respectively.
Hitherto ye were not able. — Better, for ye were not yet able. Up to this point the Apostle has been speaking of the condition in which he found the Corinthians when he came first to Corinth, and he proceeds from this to rebuke them for continuing in this condition. He does not blame them for having been “babes” at the outset, but he does in the following passage blame them for not having yet grown up out of infancy.