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Teachers (didaskaloi). Predicate nominative after einai.
By reason of the time (dia ton chronon). Alas, what a commentary on modern Christians.
That some one teach you the rudiments (tou didaskein humas tina ta stoicheia). Neat Greek idiom, genitive case of the articular infinitive (need of the teaching) with two accusatives of the person (humas, you) and the thing (ta stoicheia, the rudiments) and the accusative of general reference (tina, as to some one). For stoicheia see Gal 4:3, Gal 4:9; Col 2:8.
Of the first principles of the oracles of God (tēs archēs tōn logiōn tou theou). Three genitives linked to each other. Archēs (beginning) illustrates ta stoicheia, just before, the A B C of Christian teaching like Heb 6:1. Logion is a diminutive of logos, divine oracles being usually brief, common in the O.T. and Philo for God’s words, in N.T. used for the O.T. (Act 7:38; Rom 3:2), of God’s word through Christians (1Pe 4:11), of the substance of Christian teaching (Heb 5:12).
Of milk (galaktos). Because still babes (1Co 3:2) and not able to chew “solid food” (stereās trophēs), without intellectual and spiritual teeth.