“Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,”
Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch! — the commands (haptō, geuomai, thigganō) are false-teacher restrictions. Ascetic avoidances are presented as salvific necessities. Paul's three imperatives (all prohibitive) mock the rules' emptiness.
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