21. Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them],
22. Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines. [Isa. 29:13.]
23. Such [practices] have indeed the outward appearance [that popularly passes] for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigor of devotion and delight in self-humiliation and severity of discipline of the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh (the lower nature). [Instead, they do not honor God but serve only to indulge the flesh.]