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NASB | Colossians 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God, [as displayed] when He raised Christ from the dead. |
Subject: repost of circumcission and baptism? |
Bible Note: Greetings Referg! May I touch upon two points you made my friend! 1) Man made rules! While the rabbi's definitely went beyond Scripture on points, many of the rules about the sabbath were established by God, not man. For example, Exod. 16:29-30; 34:21; 35:3; and Num. 15:32-36 all list certain kinds of work which were restricted by God on the sabbath. 2) Col. 2:16: The reason most translations say 'Sabbath' instead of Sabbath days is that the plural form could also be used to refer to the seventh day sabbath. We know this from both Scripture and historical records. For instance, Josephus says in his Antiquities (3, 10, 1): "The law requires, that out of the public expenses a lamb of the first year be killed every day, at the beginning and at the ending of the day; but on the seventh day, which is called the Sabbath, they kill two, and sacrifice them in the same manner. At the new moon, they both perform the daily sacrifices, and slay two bulls, with seven lambs of the first year, and a kid of the goats also, for the expiation of sins; that is, if they have sinned through ignorance." Here, Sabbath is the same plural form as found in Col. 2:16 and Josephus is clearly refering to the seventh day sabbath. Scripturally, we find the following verses which use the plural form to refer to the seventh day sabbath: a) Mt. 12:1 - "At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them." (In fact, v. 2 uses the singular. Hence, in these two verses the plural and singular are used interchangeably.) b) Mt. 12:5 - "Or haven?t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple desecrate the day and yet are innocent?" c) Mt 12:10 - "and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, ??Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?? 11 He said to them, ??If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.?" d) Mt. 28:1 - "After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb." (Here, even the first occurance of the word is plural.) e) Mk. 1:21 - "They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach." I could go on, but these should suffice to demonstrate that the plural form was also used to indicate a seventh day sabbath. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |