Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
Here he digresses to complain of the low attainments of the Palestinian Christians, and to warn them of the danger of falling from light once enjoyed; at the same time encouraging them by God's faithfulness to persevere. At Hebrews 6:20 he resumes the comparison of Christ to Melchisedek.
Hard to be uttered, х dusermeeneutos (G1421)] - 'hard of interpretation to speak.' Hard for me to state intelligibly to you, owing to your dulness about spiritual things. Hence, instead of saying many things, he writes in comparatively few words (Hebrews 13:22). In the "we," Paul, as usual, includes Timothy in addressing them.
Ye are, х gegonate (G1096)] - 'ye have become dull' х noothroi (G3576), sluggish]: once, when first "enlightened," they were zealous, but had become dull. That the Hebrew believers AT JERUSALEM were spiritually dull, and legal in tone, appears from Acts 21:20-24, where James and the elders say of the 'thousands of Jews which believe, they are all zealous of the law:' that was at Paul's last visit to Jerusalem, after which this letter was written (Hebrews 5:12, note).