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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Colossians 2:23
Which things. The doctrines just condemned. See Colossians 2:21.
A show of wisdom. But only a show.
In will-worship. Self-imposed, arbitrary worship.
And humility. Ostentatious humility.
And neglecting of the body. "And severity to the body" (Revised
Version). By starving it and refusing proper food. This implies that
these teachers demanded mortifications of the flesh, such as have been
always commended in the Romanish church.
Not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. "But are not
of any value" (Revised Version). They have no efficacy in overcoming
the lusts of the flesh. In Colossians 3:1 we are told the only way of
overcoming the flesh. In this chapter can be discovered traces of the
ascetic spirit which a few centuries later became so dominant in the
church. It is well to note that it is placed under the condemnation of
the Holy Spirit.
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Colossians 2:23
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