Colossians 2:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Ver. 20. Are ye subject to ordinances] Why do ye dogmatize; or be burdened with rites or traditions, as they now are in the Papacy? John Aunt, a Roman Catholic, in his humble appeal to King James, in the sixth chapter of that pamphlet, thus blasphemeth God, -The God of the Protestants (whom he knows to be the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) is the most uncivil and evil mannered God of all those who have borne the names of God upon earth; yea, worse than Pan, god of the clowns, which can endure no ceremonies nor good manners at all.

Colossians 2:20

20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudimentsg of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,