And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all those that know the laws of your God; and teach those who know them not.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren in Christ, that I often intended to come to you, (but have been prevented thus far,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead in which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.