⁹ Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles?^[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?^(A)

¹⁶ one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent but through the power of an indestructible life.^(A)