“ (Touch not; taste not; handle 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...
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not; (21) An imitation of these superstitious men, rightly expressing their nature and use of speech.
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...
not . Greek. mede. handle . Greek. thingano. Only here, Hebrews 11:28 ; Hebrews 12:20 .
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...
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; 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...
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 contrac...
(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 pr...
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 persu...
(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 C...
Chapter 2 TWO FINAL TESTS OF THE FALSE TEACHING Colossians 2:20-23 (R.V.) The polemical part of the Epistle is now coming to an end. We pass in the next chapter, after a transitional paragraph...
Avoiding Errors Colossians 2:13-23 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...
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...
(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...
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 constitut...
(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...
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 rudim...
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...
The Glory of the Christian Economy. A. D. 62. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or...
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 conscien...
‘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 peris...
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 “bu...
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 Chr...
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...
EXPOSITION Colossians 2:1-51 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 char...
Warning against a false righteousness of works:
1 Timothy 4:3 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Genesis 3:3 ; Isaiah 52:11
Touch not — An unclean thing. Taste not — Any forbidden meat. Handle not — Any consecrated vessel.