"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?

I say that I was weak, and yet for whatever reason any one is bold (I speak in mere folly) I too am bold.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

But these men, like irrational creatures, mere animals, born to be taken and destroyed, continually rail about matters of which they know nothing. In their corruption they will surely be destroyed,