'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive it -- let him receive.'

'And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

but what saith the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,