<p>3:2 <i>I fed you with milk, not with solid food. For you were not yet able to bear it; no, not even now are you able- </i>Paul has defined what he initially taught them as being the crucified Christ. And he has proceeded to develop the idea that the presence of the Spirit within believers in Christ will enable them to 'combine with' further Spiritual teaching. But despite their initial belief, like so many today, they had not remained open to the Spirit, and so Paul was unable to share with them the deeper matters of the Spirit. Or if he did, they could not connect with those things because they were lacking the Spirit within them (see on 2:13). The language here and in Heb. 5:12-14 surely alludes to Jn. 16:12, although it doesn&rsquo;t verbally quote it: &ldquo;I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now&rdquo;. &quot;Able&quot; is <i>dunamis</i>, they were not of power to receive Spiritual things; and chapter 1 has laboured the point that <i>dunamis</i> comes from the Spirit of Christ received at baptism.</p>