 | John Hume Spry - Christian union - 1817 - 490 pages
...was reserved for those who had ears to hear and hearts to receive the treasures of heavenly wisdom. " I, brethren, could not speak unto you " as unto spiritual,...with meat : " for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, " neither yet now are ye able. For ye are " yet carnal." By telling them then that they " are carnal,"... | |
 | John Hume Spry - Christian union - 1817 - 484 pages
...was reserved for those who had ears to hear and hearts to receive the treasures of heavenly wisdom. " I, brethren, could not speak unto you " as unto spiritual,...with meat : " for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, " neither yet now are ye able. For ye are " yet carnal." By telling them then that they " are carnal,"... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1786 - 526 pages
...wise." He seems to allude to their pretended spirituality and refinement, when he says, ver. 1, • 1 could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." He likewise speaks ironically of their pretensions to wisdom : iv. 10, " We are fools for Christ's... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 538 pages
...connection plainly shews mean the same, as spiritual men and natural men, in the foregoing verses ; And I, brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto SPIRITUAL, but as unto CARNAL; ie as in a great measure unsanctified*. Now therefore, if by natural and carnal, in these texts, be... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Christian life - 1818 - 292 pages
...of this very Epistle from which our text is taken, Saint Paul, addressing the Corinthians, says; " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." The Corinthian converts, then, had not advanced beyond the first... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1818 - 624 pages
...they not being able to digeft fuch as were more tough and S ERM. difficult : / have, faith St. Paul, fed you with milk, and not *• with meat ; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it— -for ye, cor.iii. ?. are yet carnal ; and, Ye, faith the Apoftle to the Hebrews, Heb. vn are... | |
 | William Roscoe - Criminal law - 1819 - 342 pages
...objections of this kind, it is observed by the chaplain of the Bellerophon, " that it employs mens minds; so that they have less time to corrupt and...not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it."— 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. these divine rules of conduct, so simple, so energetic, so intelligible,... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1819 - 248 pages
...many things to say unto you ; but ye cannot bear them now," St. John xvi. 12! And St Paul says—" And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...but as unto carnal ; even as unto babes in Christ : 1 have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye are not able to bear it ; neither yet... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, that there are contentions among you . And J., brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal'; for ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying and strife, and divisions, Are ye not... | |
 | William Gurnall - Christian life - 1821 - 512 pages
...Corinth, that they were of little growth in grace ; such as were not past the child's spoon and meat : " 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, for ye are yet carnal." 1 Cor. iii. 2. Nay, he conceives this to be... | |
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And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 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. 
