I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.
“The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.”
“There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.”