time] Considering how long ye have enjoyed the meanes of knowledge. ye have need that one teach you again] Or, ye need to be taught again your selves. principles] It is an allusion unto children, who are first taught their letters before they can be taught to spell or to read perfectly; herein their great negligence is taxed, in as much as yet they were to learn their Catechisme, the A. B. C. as it were of the doctrine of Christ. milk] 1 Corinthians 3:2. What the Apostle called the first principles, here he calleth milk, alluding again unto children, who are fed with milk, food easie of digestion, and not with strong meat. strong] That is, a more full and ample institution in the mysteries of the Gospel, which is called the speaking of the wisdome of God in a mysterie, 1 Corinthians 2:7. See Ephesians 3:4. & Ephesians 6:16. Colossians 2:2.