Heb 5:11-14 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Heb 5:11-6:20: 5:11–6:20 After beginning to discuss Jesus’ appointment as High Priest (5:1-10 ), the author confronts his audience with a series of exhortations (5:11–6:20 ). Such a shift in a sermon or discourse was meant to focus the hearers’ attention. Summary for Heb 5:11-6:3: 5:11–6:3 This exhortation deals with the recipients’ spiritual lethargy. 5:11 spiritually dull: The Greek term means “sluggish, dimwitted, negligent, lazy.”

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‏ Hebrews 5:11-14

Summary for Heb 5:11-6:20: 5:11–6:20 ^a After beginning to discuss Jesus’ appointment as High Priest (5:1-10 ^b), the author confronts his audience with a series of exhortations (5:11–6:20 ^c). Such a shift in a sermon or discourse was meant to focus the hearers’ attention.
Summary for Heb 5:11-6:3: 5:11–6:3 ^d This exhortation deals with the recipients’ spiritual lethargy. 5:11 ^e spiritually dull: The Greek term means “sluggish, dimwitted, negligent, lazy.”
5:12 ^f Their lack of spiritual vitality was especially shocking since they had been believers so long: They ought to have been spiritual leaders who were teaching others from their wealth of knowledge and Christian experience.

• the basic things: The most rudimentary aspects of the Christian faith (see 6:1-3 ^g).

• The imagery of milk and solid food (or meat) was used to distinguish basic from advanced education, and immature from mature students.
5:14 ^h Being able to recognize the difference between right and wrong is a defining characteristic of spiritual maturity.