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NASB | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. |
Subject: Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath |
Bible Note: "In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul explicitly refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come. It is quite clear in those verses that the weekly Sabbath is in view. The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days of the Jewish calendar (cf. 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11)." The chronological progression mentioned above is being assumed. In fact, when you check all of the relevant verses, one should add 2 Chron. 8:13 and Neh. 10:33 to the list above, you find that it is only in the last two given above that the "order" is the same as in Col.2:16. All the rest are in reverse "order" and when looked at closely you find that (we'll use Hos. 2:11 as an example here) it is created artificially by dropping the "solemn feasts" at the end of the verse. We also need to remember that some of the ceremonial sabbaths were days of fasting (Day of Atonement and feast of Trumpets) thus it would not be proper to call them a feast. So, the seventh-day Sabbath isn't even being mentioned at all in Col. 2:16-17. Secondly, grammattically speaking Paul isn't contrasting body and shadow. The contrast is on who can do the judging: some outsider or the church ("the body of Christ")? |