...with fools and scorners. You do not belong to that class of prophets to whom it was reproached, that " when for the time ye ought " to be teachers, ye have need that one teach " you again." That you may long continue, both by example and by precept, to animate the virtue of the good, to confirm...

...his Jewish brethren : for he no sooner mentions the name of Melchisedec, than he adds : " of whom I have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing ;" that is unwilling to hear as Christ says of them, (Matt, xiii. 15,) "for this peoples' heart is...

...been acquainted. What he particularly adverted to was the Priesthood of Christ. " Of him," says he, " we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,...ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you what be the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not...

...case, it will be seen — arose from the theological incompetency of those to whom he referred : " Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing." And why was this ? The answer is suggested by the Apostle in the fourteenth verse, — want of proper...

...faith. This is plainly expressed in the epistle to the Hebrews, chap. v. 11, &c. " Of whom (ie Christ) we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are all dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you...

...pure all things are pure. — Titns i. 15. When Paul was writing many things concerning Christ, he said, Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing, &c. ye are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat, &c. strong meat belongeth to them...

...the pure all things are pure. —Titus i. 15. When Paul was writing many things concerning Christ, he said, Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing, &c. ye are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat, &c. strong meat belongeth to them...

...Christians for their inability to understand what he thought it useful to say, respecting Melchisedec: "Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing." And if, as, perhaps, will appear in the sequel, Melchisedec was an eminent type of Christ; no one will...

...to the Hebrews the apostle says, " Called of " God a High Priest after the order of Melchize" dec, of whom we have many things to say, and " hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hear" ing." Yet, having shewn that they had made very small proficiency compared with what might have...

...of communicating to the succeeding race. To whom the Apostle gives a severe reproof, Heb. v. 1 2. ' When for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you,' &c. Though we may attain knowledge by conversing with creatures, yet there is no creature hath wisdom...