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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: Correcting the translation |
Bible Note: Ah, now I see where you are at! First, a little thing about exegesis (I also have a small page at my web site where I list about 25 links to which one can go so one can learn how to do it) (in very broad terms here): you start with the grammatical and linguistic analysis, then you look at its context (literary and historical), then and only then do you move to application. So, in this case, I have a ways to go to get where you want to be. However, I can tell a few things based on what I have seen. 1) If your church is having potluck after church and someone comes in and says that if you are really serious about communing with God then you shouldn't be feasting, that instead you should be fasting then based on this verse I would say that you can safely ignore what they are saying. However, I have never seen this type of scenario in today's world. 2) The more likely scenario is that someone will tell you that in this verse Paul is saying that we don't have to follow the dietary laws or keep the Sabbath. Based on what Paul actually wrote we can now know that is not the correct interpretation of this verse--which makes me wonder about any other translation of any other verse that the person may then talk about--note the "contra" (source(s)) that I have in the footnotes to my study, these people are particularly suspect. 3) Paul is definitely not talking about "not celebrate sabbaths", but rather the believers at Colossae were being judged for _how_ they were celebrating. Since he wrote this between 57-62 A.D. that means that the believers at Colossae were celebrating the days without condemnation from Paul. So, does that mean we should doing it? I don't know; I have noted a number of people who think we should. |