Hebrews 5:11

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

One can have sympathy with original readers of Hebrews, for not merely unto them but to many in our own times and in all ages, the writer's words are properly said to be "hard of interpretation." This is true of the thoughts of Melchizedek, which seem to have precipitated this word from the author; and it is also true of many other things in the epistle, such as the teaching on chastisement (Hebrews 12:7), etc. The importance of the communication, however, is so great and the need of the people to understand it is so urgent that, after a rebuke to them, he goes ahead with the argument anyway.