deeds, love, and even the submission patterns of the household (2:13–3:7). This holiness is also configured by a powerful no toward our former lives and their passions. In fact, beginning the passage at 2:2 instead of 2:1 is a bit misleading. The milk and stone support and nourish us in the context of our “putting away” our former vices. Key to the whole force of this argument is the series of scriptural quotes and/or allusions in 2:6, 7, 8, 9, 10. The quote in 2:6 comes from Isaiah 28:16; 2:7 is