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Ideas or doctrines that are simpler or easier to accept (should be taught) before more difficult ones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Mormonism
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History
From 1 Corinthians 3:2, in Koine Greek ἐπότισα γάλα οὐ βρῶμα (epótisa gála ou brôma, “I gave you milk, not meat [or solid food]”), and in a Mormon context Doctrine and Covenants 19:22: “For they cannot bear meat now, but milk they must receive”. In the form milk before meat, first attested in the early 20th century.
