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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: what sabbath does it refer to? |
Bible Note: Tim, My thanks to you for a Biblical answer. However, there are a number of flaws in your argument. ") The Greek word for Sabbath ('Sabbaton') is used interchangebly in both the singular and the plural. The word is used 68 times in the New Testament, and only once does it refer to more than one Sabbath (Acts 17:2)." Hey, you actually got the count right! There's a number fo sources that don't. What you should have also looked at is how the word "sabbaton" is also used in the NT to refer to the first day of the week (i.e., just because the same word is used x number of times that doesn't mean that it only means one thing. It can refer to other things. As such therefore, your conclusion: "This is conclusive proof that the Sabbath referred to in Col. 2:16 is the weekly Sabbath." is very premature. Let's look at all of the available evidence first. Another flaw here is that you only looked at the NT; try looking at this word and the other related words (In this case "heorte") in the LXX. As you can see in my study (http://biblestudy.iwarp.com/colossians/216c.html and http://biblestudy.iwarp.com/colossians/216d.html) I really wrestled with what is going on here. "2) The second proof that the weekly Sabbath is referred to in Col. 2:16 is the fact that this list is taken from Num. 28 and 29. In these two chapters, we find the exact same issues dealt with as Paul deals with in Col. 2 - Yearly festivals, monthly feasts, and weekly Sabbaths." I'm going to cheat here and simply cut-and-paste a paragraph frommy study: " A thought occurred to me as I progressed in this study that perhaps it is our "Greek," or Western, minds which see this phrase "an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days" as "denoting a time-progression."6 But, what if it isn't a "time-progression" per se but is rather a listing of ceremonial days? As Dunn has observed: "the three terms together, "sabbaths, new moons, and feasts" was in fact a regular way of speaking of the main festivals of Jewish religion."7 Bacchiocchi suggests that it is both a time sequence and a listing of festivals.8 Then when the two points above are tied together then what we have in vs. 16 is a listing: the feasts, the new moon and the sabbatical days of the feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. To me this is the only option that answers all the objections given above and below." Also the clincher that Paul isn't refrring directly to the days themselves (they are a sub-clause that he could have left out): for more details see http://biblestudy.iwarp.com/colossians/216b.html |