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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:14

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances ,.... Various are the senses interpreters give of these words; some think by the handwriting is meant the covenant God made with Adam, Genesis 2:17 , which being broken, obliged him and all his posterity to the penalty of death, but is cancelled and abolished by Christ; others, the agreement which the Israelites made with God at Mount Sinai, when they said, "all that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient", Exodus 24:7 ; which was as it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:15

And having spoiled principalities and powers ,.... Principalities of hell, the infernal powers of darkness, the devil that had the power of death, the accuser of the brethren, who often objected their debts, with all his works and posse: these Christ has divested of their armour, wherein they trusted to have ruined men, as sin, the law, and death; he has ransomed his people from him that was stronger than they, and taken the prey out of the hands of the mighty; he has bruised the serpent's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you ,.... Since they were complete in Christ, had everything in him, were circumcised in him; and particularly since the handwriting of the law was blotted out, and torn to pieces through the nails of the cross of Christ, the apostle's conclusion is, that they should be judged by no man; they should not regard or submit to any man's judgment, as to the observance of the ceremonial law: Christ is the prophet who was to be raised up like unto Moses, and who only, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:17

Which are a shadow of things to come ,.... By Christ, and under the Gospel dispensation; that is, they were types, figures, and representations of spiritual and evangelical things: the different "meats and drinks", clean and unclean, allowed or forbidden by the law, were emblems of the two people, the Jews and Gentiles, the one clean, the other unclean; but since these are become one in Christ, the distinction of meats is ceased, these shadows are gone; and also of the different food of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:18

Let no man beguile you of your reward ,.... Or prize; the allusion is to the Olympic games, one of which was running races; in which the stadium, or race plot was fixed, a mark set up to look and run unto, a corruptible crown proposed to be run for, and which was held by one who sat as judge, and determined who got the victory, and to whom the crown belonged; these judges sometimes acted the unfair part, and defrauded the victors of their proper right, and to such the apostle compares the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:8

Beware lest any man spoil you - The word συλαγωγων , from συλη , prey, and αγειν , to lead or carry away, signifies to rob, or spoil of their goods, as if by violence or rapine. Their goods were the salvation they had received from Christ; and both the Gentile and Jewish teachers endeavored to deprive them of these, by perverting their minds, and leading them off from the truths of Christianity. Philosophy and vain deceit - Or, the vain or empty deceit of philosophy; such... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:9

For in him dwelleth all the fullness - This is opposed to the vain or empty doctrine of the Gentile and Jewish philosophers: there is a fullness in Christ suited to the empty, destitute state of the human soul, but in the philosophy of the Jews and Gentiles nothing like this was found; nor indeed in the more refined and correct philosophy of the present day. No substitute has ever been found for the grace of the Lord Jesus, and those who have sought for one have disquieted themselves in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:10

And ye are complete in him - Και εστε εν αυτῳ πεπληρωμενοι· And, ye are filled with him. Our word complete quite destroys the connection subsisting in the apostle's ideas. The philosophy of the world was empty, κενη , but there was a πληρωμα , or fullness, in Christ; the Colossians were empty - spoiled and deprived of every good, while following the empty philosophy and groundless traditions of Jewish and Gentile teachers; but since they had received Christ Jesus they were ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:11

In whom also ye are circumcised - All that was designed by circumcision, literally performed, is accomplished in them that believe through the Spirit and power of Christ. It is not a cutting off of a part of the flesh, but a putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ; he having undergone and performed this, and all other rites necessary to qualify him to be a mediator between God and man; for, being made under the law, he was subject to all its... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:12

Buried with him in baptism - Alluding to the immersions practised in the case of adults, wherein the person appeared to be buried under the Water, as Christ was buried in the heart of the earth. His rising again the third any, and their emerging from the water, was an emblem of the resurrection of the body; and, in them, of a total change of life. The faith of the operation of God - They were quickened, changed, and saved, by means of faith in Christ Jesus; which faith was produced by... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 2:12

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