Some there may be so utterly wanting in Theological instinct, or so depraved of taste; so utterly unused to the study of GOD'S Word, or so unobservant of the characteristic method of it,--as to imagine that there is something trifling in the specimens of Interpretation before us. I am only concerned to maintain that they are Divine. You may think what you please about them. They are the teaching of the HOLY GHOST. Nay, if unfortunately any persons here present should think themselves wiser than GOD, I would request them to observe that, singularly enough, GOD has connected with this very exposition a short address _to themselves_. It runs as follows:--"Concerning Melchizedek, we have to deliver a long and difficult interpretation; difficult, however, _only because ye have become dull of hearing_[479]." (The fault, you observe, is _yours_. Whereas GOD made your spiritual senses sharp and quick, you have blunted their edge, and are become stupid and obtuse. It follows:)--"For when, by reason of the length of time that ye have professed Christianity, ye ought to be Teachers," (pray mark _that!_)--"ye have need that some one should teach _you_ the first Principles of the Oracles of GOD; and ye have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. For every one that useth milk, is without experience in the Word of Righteousness; for he is an infant. But solid food (στερεὰ τροφή) is for them that are of full age[480]." Where you are requested to observe that a specimen of Interpretation _you_ think trifling, the HOLY GHOST calls "_solid food_;" and yourselves, who in your own conceit represent the World's Manhood[481], He calls νηπίους,--"_babes_." ... This discrepancy of opinion strikes me as rather curious.