I could, of course, put my trust in such things. If any of you think you can trust in external ceremonies, I have even more reason to feel that way.
“Be careful, then, how you listen; because those who have something will be given more, but whoever has nothing will have taken away from them even the little they think they have.”
No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no longer do so.
Indeed, we are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners,” as they are called.