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!! Goes as far as to criticize the original Law

These seem blasphemous to me. If the claim is that the old commandments were from YHWH, but are now made obsolete, that does not mean that the old commandments are mockable.

Does not this vitriol against the Torah indicate that those espousing this are against the Author of the Torah as well?

!!! Epistle of Magnetes to Diogenetus

This is one of the earliest examples of Christian apologetics dating from the mid to late second century.

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"But as to their scrupulosity concerning meats, and their superstition as respects the Sabbaths, and their boasting about circumcision, and their fancies about fasting and the new moons, which are utterly ridiculous and unworthy of notice -- I do not think that you require to learn anything from me. For, to accept some of those things which have been formed by God for the use of men as properly formed, and to reject others as useless and redundant -- how can this be lawful? And to speak falsely of God, as if He forbade us to do what is good on the Sabbath-days -- how is not this impious? And to glory in the circumcision of the flesh as a proof of election, and as if, on account of it, they were specially beloved by God -- how is it not a subject of ridicule? And as to their observing months and days, (c.f. Galatians 4:10) as if waiting upon the stars and the moon, and their distributing, according to their own tendencies, the appointments of God, and the vicissitudes of the seasons, some for festivities, and others for mourning -- who would deem this a part of divine worship, and not much rather a manifestation of folly?"

!!! Letter LXXVI from Ambrose to Iranaeus

For the strife which before existed in the flesh being removed, an universal peace has been made in heaven; that men might be like Angels upon earth, that the Gentiles and Jews might be made one, that both the new and old man might be united, the middle wall of partition, which, as a hostile barrier, had once divided them, being broken down. For the nature of our flesh having stirred up anger discord and dissension, and the law having bound us with the chains of condemnation, Christ Jesus subdued by mortification the wantonness and intemperance of the flesh, and made void the law of commandment contained in ordinances, declaring thereby that the decrees of the spiritual Law are not to be interpreted according to the letter; putting an end to the slothful rest of the Sabbath and to the superfluous rite of outward circumcision, and opening to all access by one Spirit unto the Father. For how can there be any discord, where there is one calling, one body and one spirit?

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