11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
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In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!