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Hebrews uses “milk” for basic teaching and “solid food” for mature understanding. It says solid food belongs to the mature, whose powers of discernment are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil (Hebrews 5:12–14). The contrast is about growth and discernment.
12For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
14But solid food is for full grown men, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.