Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
When Paul blames those who claim to have had visions of angels, on the basis of which they teach that people are to abstain from meat … he does not mean to criticize the mandates of the Jewish law, as if he had been speaking at the instigation of superstitious angels. His intention, rather, is only to condemn those who do not accept Christ as the One who has true authority over all such things.
