1 Corinthians 3:2 (WEB)
I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
Fathers and councils · 41
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.65Book II
“…you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified;” which is the same as saying, “Hitherto ye were not able, neither yet now are ye able, for ye are still carnal.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus III.53Book III
“…able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able, for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”” — editor's note: [1 Cor. iii. 2, 3. S.]
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And on this account does Paul declare to the Corinthians, “I have fed you with milk, not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
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Jerome
“Whence, writing to the Corinthians, he says, “I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“If none is barren among them, all of them must have udders filled with milk and be able to say with the apostle: “Ye are my little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you;” and “I have fed you with milk and not with meat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“Satisfied with the milk-diet of an infant it cannot take solid food.” — editor's note: cf. 1 Cor. iii. 2.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“1 Cor. 3:2) because it is a greater thing that our Lord has justified us, whom He hath called, than that He saw us lying under the shadow of death.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“She, a virgin, feeds us, not with the milk of the body, but with that of the Apostle, wherewith he fed the tender age of the people who were still children.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“Blessed also is that servant who can say: “I have fed you with milk and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“Perhaps they brought him flesh in the evening, as it were stronger food, such as the Corinthians, whose minds were weak, could not take, and were therefore fed by the Apostle with milk.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IV.19Conference IV
“And again: “For whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“But to the weak he became weak, when, by way of permission, not of command, he allowed those who could not contain themselves to return together again, or when he fed the Corinthians with milk and not with meat, and says that he was with them in weakness and fear and much trembling.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 2; ii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But the natural man, as a babe in Christ,—and a drinker of milk,—until he be strengthened for solid meat, and his eye be enabled to look upon the Sun, let him not dwell in his own deserted night, but let him be contented with the light of the moon and the stars.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2, and Heb. v. 12. The allusion in our text is to what is called the Disciplina Arcani of the early Church. Clement of Alexandria, in his Stromata,…
Read the whole comment“I cannot take babes and sucklings to be any other than those to whom the Apostle says, “As unto babes in Christ I have given you milk to drink, not meat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“…pastures; after that rod, I say, when I began to be under the staff, Thou hast prepared a table in my sight, that I should no more be fed as a babe with milk, but being older should take meat, strengthened against them that trouble me.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment““Neither yet now are ye able.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“To such men saith the Apostle, “I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as to babes in Christ I gave you milk to drink, not meat; for ye were not able, but not even now are ye able.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“For ye are yet carnal.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 12, iii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“Ye know that the Apostle saith to some weak brethren, “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“For whereas there is among you emulation, and strife, are ye not carnal?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2, 3
Read the whole comment“I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2
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Read the whole comment““And his teeth are whiter than milk,”—that is, the nutritive words which, according to the apostle, the babes drink, being as yet unfit for solid food.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 2; 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“You have heard him ascending, hear him descending: “I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal; as babes in Christ I have fed you with milk, not with meat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“…unto babes in Christ I have given you milk to drink, and not meat to eat: for hitherto ye were not able; neither yet now are ye able; for ye are yet carnal;” and with these, “We speak wisdom among them that are perfect;” and with these also, “Comparing spiritual things with spiritual: but the natural man perceiveth…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“As unto babes in Christ, I have given you milk to drink, and not meat to eat: for hitherto ye were not able; neither yet now are ye able; for ye are yet carnal?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2.
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Gregory the Great
“Now the excellent preacher says, Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Christ Jesus (1 Cor. iii. 2).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For according to the Apostle who says, I have fed you with milk, not with meat (1 Cor. iii. 2), we have allowed these indulgences for them only, and not (as has been said above) for future times, lest the good which had been planted so far…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“As it were to babes in Christ, I have given you milk to drink, and not meat (1 Cor. iii. 1, 2).” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“To those then who have not yet attained to the perfect way He becomes like a sheep giving milk, and this was administered by Paul: ‘I have fed you with milk, not with meat.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
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John Chrysostom
““I gave you milk to drink, and not meat” ( 1 Cor. iii. 2 ); He did not say, I fed you, showing that such [nourishment] as this is not food, but that [the case is] like that of little children who cannot be fed with bread.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able, for ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal?” ( 1 Cor. iii. 2.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Wherefore Paul saith, “I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal; I have fed you with milk, and not with meat.” ( 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Calling together the Apostles, He gave them the Gospel doctrine, to one more, to another less, not as of His own bounty or scanting, but as meeting the capacity of the receivers, as the Apostle says [marg. note 1 Cor 3:2], that he fed with milk those that were unable to take solid food.” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there are still among you jealousy, and contention, and strifes, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“For ye are still carnal: for where there are in you emulation, and strife, and dissensions, are ye not carnal, and walk after man?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1–3.
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Tertullian
“The inexperience of a new and just rising Church, which he was rearing, to wit, “with milk,” not yet with the “solid food” of stronger doctrine; inexperience so great, that that infancy of faith prevented them from yet knowing what they were to do in regard of carnal and sexual necessity.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. iii. 2 with Heb. v. 11–14.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For some need to be fed with the milk of the most simple and elementary doctrines, viz., those who are in habit babes and, so to say, new-made, and unable to bear the manly food of the word: nay,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2; Heb. v. 12–14.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And we have still to explain what is said by the apostle: “I have fed you with milk (as children in Christ), not with meat; for ye were not able, neither yet are ye now able.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envy and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 1–3.
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Cross-references · 46
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 1:47–51 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus III.53 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus III.53 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus III.53 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.41.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.25.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.41.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.41.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.41.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.41.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XIV.8.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 23.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 23.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 23.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 23.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.38.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.38.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XIV.8.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 131.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 131.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 131.
Cited together in Conferences I–X IV.19.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 25:14–30 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV XIV.8.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 1:47–51 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 1:47–51 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 1:47–51 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 131.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 131.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.25.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.6.
Cited together in Against Celsus II.65 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity I.1.