Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 5:14

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 5:14 - 5:14

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 5:14 - 5:14

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5:1 - 5:1
5:2 - 5:2
5:3 - 5:3
5:4 - 5:4
5:5 - 5:5
5:6 - 5:6
5:7 - 5:7
5:8 - 5:8
5:9 - 5:9
5:10 - 5:10
5:11 - 5:11
5:12 - 5:12
5:13 - 5:13
5:14 - 5:14

strong meat - “solid food.”

them ... of full age - literally, “perfect”: akin to “perfection” (Heb 6:1).

by reason of use - Greek, “habit.”

senses - organs of sense.

exercised - similarly connected with “righteousness” in Heb 12:11.

to discern both good and evil - as a child no longer an infant (Isa 7:16): so able to distinguish between sound and unsound doctrine. The mere child puts into its mouth things hurtful and things nutritious, without discrimination: but not so the adult. Paul again alludes to their tendency not to discriminate, but to be carried about by strange doctrines, in Heb 13:9.