Sentences with phrase «formal obedience to the law»

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Since this obedience is obedience to a purely formal authority, in the late Jewish ethic there appears the commingling of moral and ritual laws, and the overemphasis on ritual and ceremonial rules, which Jesus denounces in the statement that the Pharisees strain out gnats and swallow camels.

It was at the age of 12 that young Jewish men began their formal training in the synagogue, were received into Judaism as a «son of the law» and were expected to begin strict obedience to the law at this age.