I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Ver. 2. I have fed you with milk] Ministers must condescend to their hearers' capacities, though they be slighted for so doing, as Paul was; or jeered, as Isaiah, Isaiah 28:9,10, for his "line upon line, precept upon precept," Kau lekau, and Zau lezau; the sound of the words carries a taunt, as scornful people by the tone of their voice and rhyming words, scorn at such as they despise.