What advantage is there then in being a Jew, and what is the use of circumcision?

Their throats are like open graves, They use their tongues to deceive; The venom of asps is behind their lips,

I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?