desire] Or, earnestly desire. Psal. 119. 20, 81, 82. sincere] That is, uncorrupted, unfalsified: hereby is meant the puritie of Gods Word, it is without falshood: see Psalms 14:8. and herein it is compared to milk, which of it selfe is uncompounded. milk] What is here meant by milk, is expressed, Chap. 1. 25. viz. the Gospel, or the Word of God revealed in the Gospel: Compared to milk; first, because of the sweetnesse of it, Esa. 25. 6. Psalms 19:10. & Psalms 119:103. Proverbs 24:13. 14. Secondly, because of the puritie thereof. See the note before. Thirdly, because of the nourishing propertie thereof; so especially here. See Ephes. 4. 11, &c. 2 Timothy 3:16-17. of the Word] The Syriak Translation renders it [spirituall] and not without good probability, it being here opposed or compared to that bodily milk which new-born babes earnestly desire, and because it is the food of the soul, which is a spirit. Hebrews 12:9. and so the Originall word may be taken. Romans 12:1.