[stoicheia] to whom you want to be subject once more? You observe days, months, seasons, and years. I fear that I have labored in vain over you. Here again the world powers display both a pagan and a Jewish countenance. Again Paul addresses Christians, called out of paganism, who threaten to relapse into a Jewish-Christian pattern of thought, according to which they would be just as subject to the whole law as were the Jews. This means returning under the dominion of the world powers from which they