Novation On the Jewish Meats but observing those things: "Touch not, taste not, handle not; which indeed seem to have a form of religion, in that the body is not spared."[35] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI For how could they be a plant of His Father who were offended at the words of Jesus, words which turn men away from the precept, "Handle not, nor taste, nor touch,-all which things were to perish in the using-after the precepts and doctrines of men,"[112]