Hebrews 5

Hebrews 5:1

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

For Christ is indeed a perfect High Priest; of whom the high priest under the Law was but a figure: we know, that whosoever bears this office is taken from among men of the

Hebrews 5:2

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

And, therefore, in likelihood, such an one, as can pity the ignorant and erring; for that he himself hath experience of the manifold infirmities, which call for his compassion in others.

Hebrews 5:6

As he saith also in another place, Thou &c. See Psalm cx. verse 4.

V. 7, 8, 9. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. Who, in the time of this present and mortal life, when he had offered up the incense of his prayers and supplications, &c. and was heard and graciously answered in those extreme agonies, which he endured, not without a true human but inoffensive fear; Though, being the natural and eternal Son of God, he was replenished with all perfection of graces and virtues, yet, that he might be a merciful High Priest for us, he was willing, by the experience of his sufferings, to be tutored to an exact obedience; And, being thus, by his exquisite sufferings and obedience, made a perfect High Priest, he became the Author of Salvation to all those which obey him, in such humble and sincere manner as he obeyed his Father.

Hebrews 5:11

Seeing ye are dull of hearing.

Seeing ye do yet make yourselves incapable of them, by forestalling your minds with sinister affections, and over much respect to the Mosaical Law.

Hebrews 5:13

For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

Whosoever in the school of Christ is such, as that he needs to be, as it were, fed with the spoon, and instructed in the plainest and easiest points of religion, that man surely, is uncapable of those higher and more difficult doctrines of divinity, which require more skill and more able apprehension to learn them.

Hebrews 5:14

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Those more difficult and profound mysteries of Christianity belong to them, which are of more growth and strength of knowledge and spiritual understanding; who have had their minds inured unto and exercised in these heavenly speculations, so as they are able to discern between the good of truth, and the evil of error.