What you are missing, Steven, is that "pure milk" is a metaphor for the
Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. The Apostle is telling his readers and us
that the Scriptures are rational and logical and feed you up spiritually as
milk feeds up a baby physically.
-- Revd Ben Crick, BA Bristol, 1963 (hons in Theology) <ben.crick@argonet.co.uk> 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK)