1 Corinthians 3:2

3:2 I fed you milk, ¹  not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 10:1

Learning from Israel’s Failures

10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, ²  brothers and sisters, ³  that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

¹ sn Milk refers figuratively to basic or elementary Christian teaching. Paul’s point was that the Corinthian believers he was writing to here were not mature enough to receive more advanced teaching. This was not a problem at the time, when they were recent converts, but the problem now is that they are still not ready.

² tn Grk “ignorant.”

³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.