And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Ver. 16. Do not ye yet understand?] What! not at these years, and after so long standing? Will ye stand till ye wax sour again, and not give yourselves wholly to these things, that your profiting may appear to all? a Is it not a shame to have no more wit at sixty years old than at six? to be "always learning, yet never come to the knowledge of the truth?" God expects a proportion of skill and holiness according to the time and means men have had,Hebrews 5:12 .
a 1 Timothy 4:15. ' Ακμην adhuc pro κατα ακμην, at these years; now that you are at full stature, and in your full vigour?