Christians to adopt Mosaic practices would be to restore the old pattern of ceremonies which paganism also had. A Jew who performed his ritual without faith in God was actually doing the same thing the pagan did—practicing religious acts of a ceremonial kind which had no efficacy per se. VERSE 10. The similarity to another of Paul’s lists in Colossians 2:16 makes it obvious that Jewish rites are in view. “Ye observe” (paratēreisthe) uses the present tense