Colossians 2:21
What meaning of the colossians 2:21 in the Bible?
What does Colossians 2:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"(Touch not; taste not; handle not;"
What does Colossians 2:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"(Touch not; taste not; handle not;"
Verse 21. _TOUCH NOT; TASTE NOT; HANDLE NOT_] These are forms of expression very frequent among the Jews. In _Maccoth_, fol. xxi. 1: "If they say to a Nazarite, _Don't drink, don't drink_; and he, not...
TOUGH NOT; TASTE NOT; HANDLE NOT - These words seem intended as a specimen of the kind of ordinances which the apostle refers to, or an imitation of the language of the Jewish teachers in regard to va...
II. COMPLETE IN HIM, IN WHOM ALL THE FULLNESS DWELLS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The mystery of God (Colossians 2:1)_ 2. Complete in Christ (Colossians 2:9) 3. Exhortations and warnings (Colossians 2:16) Colo...
AN URGENT WARNING AGAINST A DEGRADING THEOSOPHY. Let them not be led away by false reasonings, however persuasive. They must think of Paul, despite his bodily absence, as being with them in spirit (1...
LOVE'S STRUGGLE (Colossians 2:1) _ 2:1 I want you to know how great a struggle I am going through for you, and for the people of Laodicaea, and for all those who have never seen me face to face._ He...
NOT. Greek. _mede._ HANDLE. Greek. _thingano._ Only here, Hebrews 11:28; Hebrews 12:20....
(_touch not; taste not; handle not;_ Better (discarding _the bracket_here), HANDLE THOU NOT, NOR TASTE, NOR TOUCH. This rendering represents exactly the construction of the Greek, and is truer to the...
20–3:4. _Transition to the detailed practical directions of the Epistle_ (Colossians 3:5 to Colossians 4:6). St Paul, first negatively (Colossians 2:20-23), and secondly positively (c. Colossians 3:1-...
ΆΨΗ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΤΟΜΑΙ (G681) трогать, удерживать, хватать, ΓΕΎΣΗ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G1089) пробовать, вкушать, наслаждаться, ΘΊΓΗΣ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΘΙΓΓΆΝΩ (G...
_COLOSSIANS 2:21_. (_TOUCH NOT,_ &C.— _"Touch not_ any thing ceremonially unclean: _taste not_ any food which the law prohibits:_handle not_ any thing by which legal pollutions may be contracted." The...
20. IF YE DIED WITH CHRIST FROM THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, WHY, AS THOUGH LIVING IN THE WORLD, DO YE SUBJECT YOURSELVES TO ORDINANCES, 21. HANDLE NOT, NOR TASTE, NOR TOUCH 22. (ALL WHICH THINGS ARE T...
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; Compare Colossians 2:16. Instances of the "ordinances" (Colossians 2:20) in the words of their imposers. There is an ascending climax of superstitious prohibition...
__ Doctrinal Correction 15 Not only is the believer exempt from the authority of the apostles of the Circumcision, but, in spirit, he is beyond the reach of all human jurisdiction. Even before His r...
THE FALSE TEACHING AND ITS REFUTATION 4-15. Hold fast to Christ the All-sufficient Saviour. PARAPHRASE. '(4) I emphasise these truths about Christ lest you should be beguiled by plausible persuasions...
CHRIST HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED THE COLOSSIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 V1 I am working for you. I am working for the peo...
(20-23) In this and the succeeding section, St. Paul, starting from the idea of union with the Head, draws out the practical consequences of partaking of the death of Christ and the resurrection of Ch...
CHAPTER 2 TWO FINAL TESTS OF THE FALSE TEACHING Colossians 2:20 (R.V.) The polemical part of the Epistle is now coming to an end. We pass in the next chapter, after a transitional paragraph, to simp...
SINCE THE LAW HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND THE ANGELS DESPOILED, RITUAL OR ASCETIC ORDINANCES HAVE NO LONGER ANY MEANING FOR THOSE WHO IN CHRIST POSSESS THE SUBSTANCE, OF WHICH THESE ARE BUT THE SHADOW. THE...
AVOIDING ERRORS Colossians 2:13 The reiteration of the prepositions in and with emphasizes our close identification with our Savior. Such we are in the purpose of God, and so we should be in daily e...
If for a moment we glance back at the passage beginning with 1:24 and ending with 2:3, we find reference to a threefold mystery: the first, the Church, which is the Body of Christ; then the secret of...
Once one had died to sin and worldly pursuits in baptism (verse 12), there was no reason for him to live as if he were still controlled by worldly thinking. Worldly traditions and the law of Moses do...
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not; (21) An imitation of these superstitious men, rightly expressing their nature and use of speech....
_Touch not, &c. That is, why do you permit yourselves to be taught in this manner by those Jewish doctors: why do you touch or eat this, lest you be unclean? such superstitious observations, now at le...
(16) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: (17) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ....
The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. They are in nowise the same, but may be viewed each as a supplement to the othe...
21._Eat not, taste not. _Hitherto this has been rendered — _Handle not_, but as another word immediately follows, which signifies the same thing, every one sees how cold and absurd were such a repetit...
Thus we have a double ministry, as well as a double preeminence of Christ, and a double reconciliation; and each having a similar relationship the one to the other: Christ, the Head of all things in h...
TOUCH NOT, TASTE NOT, HANDLE NOT. This the apostle says, not of himself, but in the person of the Jewish doctors; who urging the use of the ceremonial law, to which they added decrees and constitution...
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; Ver. 21. _Touch not, taste not, &c._] The words of those impostors, which are here mimetically, or by way of imitation, related. See the like Ecclesiastes 10:14, wh...
_Wherefore_ The inference begun Col 2:16 is continued. A new inference follows Colossians 3:1. _If ye be dead with Christ_ As by receiving the ordinance of baptism ye profess to be; _from the rudiment...
TOUCH NOT-HANDLE NOT; samples of these worldly ordinances pertaining to the Jewish distinction of meats....
Warning against a false righteousness of works:...
CHRIST THE SOURCE OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE (vs.1-10) In verse 1 the unselfish faith and love of the apostle shines beautifully. He was as deeply concerned for believers who had not seen him as he was...
Christian Liberty - 2:16-23 16SO LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN FOOD OR IN DRINK, OR REGARDING A FESTIVAL OR A NEW MOON OR SABBATHS, Do not let others judge you, as you should not judge others. (Matthew 7:...
HANDLE NOT, NOR TASTE, NOR TOUCH 'HANDLE NOT' -'Do not handle this; Do not taste that; Do not touch that other thing' (Wey) 'The precepts here quoted are those of the false teachers..' (Gr. Ex. N.T....
18-23 It looked like humility to apply to angels, as if men were conscious of their unworthiness to speak directly to God. But it is not warrantable; it is taking that honour which is due to Christ o...
Which he doth here by way of imitation, upbraiding of them, elegantly recite in the words, phrases, or sense of those imposing dogmatists, whose superstition and lust of domineering over the conscienc...
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 Ma...
Colossians 2:21 not G3361 touch G680 (G5672) not G3366 taste G1089 (G5667) not G3366 handle G2345 (G5632) GENESIS 3:3; ISAIAH 52:11; 2 CORINTHIANS 6:17; 1 TIMOTHY 4:3...
‘If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourself to ordinances, “handle not, nor taste, nor touch”, (all which things are to perish...
2. _Two Special Warnings Enforced._ This brief section is both an application of the obligations resulting from the truths stated in Colossians 2:9-15, and a warning against certain specific errors wh...
HANDLE NOT, NOR TASTE, NOR TOUCH (μη αψη μηδε γευση μηδε θιγηις). Specimens of Gnostic rules. The Essenes took the Mosaic regulations and carried them much further and the Pharisees demanded ceremon...
Colossians 2:1. _For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;_ Paul had not met these Colossian Christ...
CONTENTS: Godhead incarnate in Christ. Danger of those who would entice away from Christ. Philosophy and legality, mysticism and asceticism. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Believers who...
Colossians 2:1. _I would that ye knew what great conflict I have,_ in the inward feelings of my heart and wrestlings of prayer, _for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many,_ in the adjacent di...
YOU HAVE DIED WITH CHRIST. You died with Christ in your act of baptism (Colossians 2:12) and became free from the Law and human wisdom (Colossians 2:8). RULING SPIRITS OF THE UNIVERSE. This sometimes...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:4 The Dangerous Teaching at Colossae. Paul delivers a series of warnings about the teaching that threatens the Colossian church. In doing so, he also provides important...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 2:20. DEAD … FROM THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD.—Such as are given in Colossians 2:21. SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES.—Why do you consent to receive these “burdens gri...
EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 2:1 SECTION IV. THE APOSTLE'S CONCERN FOR THE COLOSSI. AN CHURCH. So far the contents of the letter have been of a general and preparatory character. New the writer begins to...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Colossians, chapter two. Paul had never visited Colosse. He had heard of the church from Epaphras, who was the minister there, who had told Paul of the love that the...
1 Timothy 4:3; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Genesis 3:3; Isaiah 52:11...
Touch - taste - handle [α ψ η - γ ε υ σ η - θ ι γ η ς]. %Aptomai, A. V., touch, is properly to fasten one's self to or cling to. So John 20:17 (note). Frequently rendered touch in the New Testament, a...
Touch not — An unclean thing. Taste not — Any forbidden meat. Handle not — Any consecrated vessel....