A WARNING OF MISSING THE NEW COVENANT

Hebrews 5:11–14 confronts the community’s spiritual sluggishness, noting that they have become dull in hearing and unable to grasp deeper teaching about Christ. Though they ought to be teachers by now, they still require basic instruction, revealing an arrested spiritual development. The writer contrasts milk, which represents foundational truths, with solid food, which belongs to the mature—those who, through consistent practice, have trained their faculties to discern good from evil. The passage functions as both rebuke and diagnostic insight, exposing the community’s need for renewed attentiveness and disciplined growth toward theological and moral maturity.