Not giving heed to Jewish myths, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Jewish fables, and commandments of men. False traditions of the Jewish doctors, which were multiplied at that time. Calvin pretended from hence, that holydays and fasting days, and all ordinances of the Catholic Church were to be rejected as null, because they are the precepts of men. By the same argument must be rejected all laws and commands of princes and civil magistrates, as being the precepts of men. Fine doctrine! He might have remembered what St. Paul taught, (Romans xiii.) that all power is from God; and what Christ said, (Luke x. 16,) "He that hears you, hears me "He might have observed that the men the apostle here speaks of, had turned away themselves from the Christian faith. (Witham)
