Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Colossians 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the (z) body [is] of Christ.
(z) The body as a thing of substance and physical strength, he sets against shadows.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the (z) body [is] of Christ.
(z) The body as a thing of substance and physical strength, he sets against shadows.
Verse 17. _WHICH ARE A SHADOW_] All these things were _types_, and must continue in force till the Christ, whom they represented, came; the apostle therefore says that the _body_ - the _substance_ or...
WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME - See the notes at Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 10:1, note. They were only a dim outline of future things, not the reality. BUT THE BODY IS OF CHRIST - The reality, the su...
II. COMPLETE IN HIM, IN WHOM ALL THE FULLNESS DWELLS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The mystery of God (Colossians 2:1)_ 2. Complete in Christ (Colossians 2:9) 3. Exhortations and warnings (Colossians 2:16
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 (1...
LOVE'S STRUGGLE (Colossians 2:1) _ 2:1 I want you to know how great a struggle I am going through for you, and for the people of Laodicaea, and for all those who have never seen me face to face._ He...
Beware lest there will be anyone who will carry you off as his spoil, by insisting on the necessity of a so-called philosophy, which is, in fact, an empty delusion, a philosophy which has been handed...
Let no one take you to task in matters of food or drink, or with regard to yearly festivals and monthly new moons and weekly sabbaths. These are only the shadow of things to come; the real substance b...
_a shadow_ Cp. Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 10:1. The word suggests the idea of "an image cast by an object and representing its form." (Grimm's _N.T. Lexicon_, ed. Thayer.) _things to come_ from the point of...
A reason why these things should not be objects of scrupulous anxiety on the part of the Colossians. Ἅ. The plural most naturally refers to the five points in Colossians 2:16 considered singly, for e...
16–19. _Practical application of_ Colossians 2:6-15 _and more especially_ Colossians 2:9-15 You have everything in Christ (Colossians 2:10), and have been joined to Him in all His redemptiv
ΣΚΙΆ (G4639) тень. Сама тень не обладает материальностью, но слово указывает и на существование тела, которое отбрасывает эту тень (Abbott), или же это шаблон, набросок, в отличие от самого объекта. Э...
DISCOURSE: 2179 THE NATURE AND USE OF THE TYPES Colossians 2:17. _Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ_. MAN is naturally addicted to superstition; partly from a consciousn...
WHICH ARE A SHADOW, &C.— "Which things were only a shadow or type of things that were to come, and which are now actually come; Christ being the real and substantial blessing obscurely shadowed forth...
16. LET NO MAN THEREFORE JUDGE YOU IN MEAT, OR IN DRINK, OR IN RESPECT OF A FEAST DAY OR A NEW MOON OR A SABBATH DAY: 17. WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THE THINGS TO COME; BUT THE BODY IS CHRIST'S. _Translat...
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. THINGS TO COME - blessings of the Christian covenant. Compare "ages to come" - i:e., the Gospel dispensation (; , "the world to com...
__ Doctrinal Correction 15 Not only is the believer exempt from the authority of the apostles of the Circumcision, but, in spirit, he is beyond the reach of all human jurisdiction. Even before His r...
In Christ they have all in reality which they think they have in Judaism. This v. might almost serve as a text for the Epistle to the Hebrews, which sees in Christianity the religion of eternity reali...
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 persuasions...
CHRIST HAS EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED THE COLOSSIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 V1 I am working for you. I am working for the peo...
(16-19) To the warning against speculative error succeeds a warning against two practical superstitions. The first is simply the trust in obsolete Jewish ordinances (the mere shadow of Christ) with wh...
WHICH ARE A SHADOW... BUT THE BODY (_the substance_) IS OF CHRIST. — The spirit of the passage is precisely that of the argument which runs through the Epistle to the Hebrews. “The Law had a shadow of...
CHAPTER 2 WARNINGS AGAINST TWIN CHIEF ERRORS, BASED UPON PREVIOUS POSITIVE TEACHING Colossians 2:16 (R.V.) "Let no man therefore judge you." That "therefore" sends us back to what the Apostle has be...
SINCE THE LAW HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND THE ANGELS DESPOILED, RITUAL OR ASCETIC ORDINANCES HAVE NO LONGER ANY MEANING FOR THOSE WHO IN CHRIST POSSESS THE SUBSTANCE, OF WHICH THESE ARE BUT THE SHADOW. THE...
This verse contains a hint of the fundamental argument of the Epistle to the Hebrews (_cf._ esp. Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 10:1). ὅ ἐστιν σκιὰ τῶν μελλόντων. Whether ὅ or ἅ be read, the reference is to the...
AVOIDING ERRORS Colossians 2:13 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 daily ex...
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...
Warnings About False Teaching Since the law of Moses had been nailed to the cross, Colossian Christians did not have to answer to anyone as to why they did not observe various parts of the law or some...
(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....
The most cursory reader discerns at once that the epistle to the Colossians is the counterpart of that to the Ephesians. They are in nowise the same, but may be viewed each as a supplement to the othe...
_BODY AND SHADOW_ ‘Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.’ Colossians 2:17 To every one naturally, that is, till they are religious, that is, till they have faith, this wo...
17._Which are a shadow of things to come. _The reason why he frees Christians from the observance of them is, that they were _shadows _at a time when Christ was still, in a manner, absent. For he cont...
Thus we have a double ministry, as well as a double preeminence of Christ, and a double reconciliation; and each having a similar relationship the one to the other: Christ, the Head of all things in h...
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...
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body _is_ of Christ. Ver. 17. _Which are a shadow_] And so a sign of Christ, obscurely and imperfectly representing him to the old Church, and now abolis...
_Let no man, therefore_, &c. Seeing these things are so, and the ceremonial law is now abolished, let no one, who is in a bigoted manner attached to it, _judge_ and condemn _you_ Gentile Christians; t...
A SHADOW; of the Redeemer who was to come; pointing to him as the only and all-sufficient Saviour. THE BODY IS OF CHRIST; he is the substance to which, as shadows, all the Jewish rites referred. Circu...
WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME; BUT THE BODY IS OF CHRIST....
Warning against a false righteousness of works:...
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 was...
Christian Liberty - 2:16-23 16SO LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN FOOD OR IN DRINK, OR REGARDING A FESTIVAL OR A NEW MOON OR SABBATHS, Do not let others judge you, as you should not judge others. (Matthew 7:...
WHICH ARE. SHADOW OF THE THINGS TO COME; BUT THE BODY IS CHRIST'S. 'WHICH' -i.e. the things mentioned in Colossians 2:16, including 'a sabbath day'. 'ARE' -Especially now, but they always did have....
8-17 There is a philosophy which rightly exercises our reasonable faculties; a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God, and confirms our faith in him. But there is a philoso...
WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME; which, as they were but obscurer representations or shadowy resemblances of future benefits procured by Christ, HEBREWS 8:5, HEBREWS 9:11 10:1, whatever temporary...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII and is a shadow of the things to come,[39]...
Colossians 2:17 which G3739 are G2076 (G5748) shadow G4639 come G3195 (G5723) but G1161 substance G4983 Christ
Colossians 2:17. WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THE THINGS TO COME. All the matters spoken of in Colossians 2:16 are referred to; the whole system of prohibitions and festivals has a typical significance, poin...
2. _Two Special Warnings Enforced._ This brief section is both an application of the obligations resulting from the truths stated in Colossians 2:9-15, and a warning against certain specific errors wh...
A SHADOW (σκια). Old word, opposed to substance (σωμα, body). In Hebrews 10:1 σκια is distinguished from εικων (picture), but here from σωμα (body, substance). The σωμα (body) casts the σκια (shado...
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 you when, as poor, guilty sinners, you came and trusted...
Colossians 2:6. _As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:_ Do not go away from him. You have received him; keep to him. Whatever he was to you at first, let him be that...
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 Christ...
CONTENTS: Godhead incarnate in Christ. Danger of those who would entice away from Christ. Philosophy and legality, mysticism and asceticism. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Believers who u...
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 di...
ALL SUCH THINGS. The Jewish ritual looked forward to Christ. Christ is the reality; and his body, the church, is made up of those made free by Truth....
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:4 The Dangerous Teaching at Colossae. Paul delivers a series of warnings about the teaching that threatens the Colossian church. In doing so, he also provides important...
COLOSSIANS—NOTE ON COLOSSIANS 2:17 A SHADOW OF THE THINGS TO COME. The old covenant ceremonies pointed to a future reality that was fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ (compare...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Colossians 2:16. LET NO MAN THEREFORE JUDGE YOU.—They could not well prevent an adverse judgment being given on their disregard of what the ritualists thought to be o...
EXPOSITION COLOSSIANS 2:1 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 character. New the writer be
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Colossians, chapter two. Paul had never visited Colosse. He had heard of the church from Epaphras, who was the minister there, who had told Paul of the love that the...
Hebrews 10:1; Hebrews 4:1; Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 9:9; John 1:17;...
Which are. Explanatory. Seeing they are. Referring to all the particulars of ver. 16. Shadow of things to come. Shadow, not sketch or outline, as is shown by body following. The Mosaic ritual system...
Which are but a lifeless shadow; but the body, the substance, is of Christ....