But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,