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For full-grown men (teleiōn). Predicate genitive. The word is for adults, relative perfection (teleioi) in contrast with babes as in 1Co 2:6; 1Co 3:1; 1Co 13:11; Phi 3:15; Eph 4:4, not absolute perfection (Mat 5:48).
Their senses (ta aisthētēria). The organs of perception (Stoic term for sense organs) from aisthanomai (Luk 9:45), in Plato, Galen, Hippocrates, here only in N.T.
Exercised (gegumnasmena). Perfect passive participle of gumnazō, to exercise (naked, gumnos). Galen uses aisthētēria gegumnasmena together after echō as we have here. For this predicate use of the participle with echō see Luk 13:6; Luk 14:19. “By reason of use” one gains such skill.
To discern (pros diakrisin). “For deciding between” (from diakrinō), old word with ablative kalou te kai kakou (between good and evil). See 1Co 12:1; Rom 14:1.