knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
received by tradition from your fathers: "Tradition" means "handed down from one’s fathers or ancestors" (Thayer 496-1-3970). There is nothing in the makeup of men, whether the tradition of the Jewish elders or idolatries of the Gentiles, then or now, that can save.