If ye be dead with Christ; compare, for this idea of dying with Christ, Romans 6:3-11, and the notes on that passage. By dying with Christ, the Colossians had renounced sin and worldly confidence in the rudiments of the world; that is, the Mosaic ceremonies; see note to verse Colossians 2:8.

Why then, as though living in the world, and not dead to it with Christ, would they be subject to ordinances; have the vain worldly ordinances which they professed to have renounced imposed upon them? Why seek justification by Jewish ordinances, which forbid certain meats or drinks, and make vain distinctions of days. Verse Colossians 2:16.

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