Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 3:2

“(Since you were babes), I gave you milk to drink, not meat:” a common figure for the simpler and more solid forms of instruction contrasted (see parls.). The teaching of 1 Thess. (see 1 Corinthians 2:7 f.) is γάλα as compared with the βρῶμα of Rom. or Coloss.; so the Synoptics, in comparison with the Fourth Gospel. The zeugma ἐπότισα … βρῶμα is natural in Paul's conversational style; see 1 Corinthians 9:7, per contra. οὔπω γὰρ ἐδύνασθε : “for not yet (while I was with you) were you equal to it”. This absolute use of δύναμαι (= δυνατός εἰμι) is cl [461], but h.l [462] for the N.T.; the tense impf [463], of continued state.

[461] classical.

[462] .l. hapax legomenon, a solitary expression.

[463]mpf. imperfect tense.

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1 Corinthians 3:2

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