1 Timothy 4:3; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Genesis 3:3; Isaiah 52:11
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...
(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...
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 th...
(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. xx...
Colossians 2:21 . ( Touch not, &c.— "Touch not any thing ceremonially unclean: taste not any food which the law prohibits: handle not...
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; Compare Colossians 2:16 . Instances of the "ordinances" ( Colossians 2:20 ) in the words of their imposers...
The False Teaching and its Refutation 4-15. Hold fast to Christ the All-sufficient Saviour. Paraphrase. '(4) I emphasise these truths about Chr...
(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 partakin...
Touch not; taste not; handle not. — The first and last of these renderings should be inverted. There is in the commands a climax of strictness. “Ha...
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 i...
Avoiding Errors Colossians 2:13-23 The reiteration of the prepositions in and with emphasizes our close identification with our Savior. Such we...
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 Churc...
(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 s...
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 ceremon...
(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...
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 ordi...
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 c...
The Glory of the Christian Economy. A. D. 62. ...
Which he doth here by way of imitation, upbraiding of them, elegantly recite in the words, phrases, or sense of those imposing dogmatists, whose supe...
‘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...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Colossians 2:20 . Dead … from the rudiments of the world. —Such as are given in Colossians 2:21 . Subject to or...
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...
Colossians 2:6 . As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: That is, keep on as you began. Christ was enough for yo...
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 t...
EXPOSITION Colossians 2:1-51 SECTION IV . THE APOSTLE 'S CONCERN FOR THE COLOSSI . AN CHURCH . So far the contents of the...
Warning against a false righteousness of works:
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Touch not — An unclean thing. Taste not — Any forbidden meat. Handle not — Any consecrated vessel.
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;