Did not Christ blame the Pharisees, saying, “Why do you transgress the commandment of God for your tradition”? Matt. XV., 3.

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

He did, but he called it their tradition, condemning their erroneous and merely human tradition, not the right traditions to which, according to St. Paul, we must hold fast. You quote this text merely because it happens to contain the word tradition, and without any appreciation of its true sense.

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