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14 ahaving wiped out the1 handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.  
15 aHaving disarmed bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.  
16 So let no one ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a1 festival or a new moon or sabbaths,  
17 awhich are a shadow of things to come, but the1 substance is of Christ.  
18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has1 not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,  
19 and not holding fast to athe Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, bgrows with the increase that is from God.  
20 Therefore, if you adied with Christ from the basic principles of the world, bwhy, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— 
21 a“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”  
22 which all concern things which perish with the using—aaccording to the commandments and doctrines of men?  
23 aThese things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and1 neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. 
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Colossians 2:16

Let no one judge you (mh tiv umav krinetw). Prohibition present active imperative third singular, forbidding the habit of passing judgment in such matters. For krinw see on Matthew 7:1. Paul has here in mind the ascetic regulations and practices of one wing of the Gnostics (possibly Essenic or even Pharisaic influence). He makes a plea for freedom in such matters on a par with that in 1Co. 8-9; Rom. 14; 15. The Essenes went far beyond the Mosaic regulations. For the Jewish feasts see on Galatians 4:10. Josephus (Ant. III. 10, 1) expressly explains the "seventh day" as called "sabbata" (plural form as here, an effort to transliterate the Aramaic sabbathah).




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