Colossians 2:14

Having erased the hand-signed sefer of guilt choiv (debt), the heavenly indictment against us in the maleh chukat haTorah (full statute requirement of the Torah), which was against us. Moshiach has done away with this opposing record, having nailed it to Moshiachʼs Etz.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

In Context

13And you being dead in your peysha'im + 2:13 Isa 53:8 and your orlat basar (uncircumcision of flesh) he made alive together, you together with Moshiach, having granted you selicha for all your peysha'im;

15Having disarmed the rulers and the authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, having triumphed over them by Moshiachʼs Etz.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:23And the kohen shall write these alot (curses) on a sefer, and he shall wash them into the mei hamarim;

Esther 3:12Then were the soferim of HaMelech summoned on the shloshah asar yom of chodesh harishon, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded, unto the satraps of HaMelech, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the sarim of every people of every province according to the script thereof, and to every people after their leshon; b'shem HaMelech Achashverosh was it written, and sealed with the taba'at HaMelech (the signet ring of HaMelech).

Psalms 51:1(For the one directing. Mizmor Dovid.

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am He that blotteth out 1 thy peysha'im for Mine own sake, 1 and will not remember thy chattot. 1

Isaiah 57:14And shall say: 1 Build ye [a road], build ye [a road], prepare the Derech, 1 remove the michshol (stumblingblock, obstacle) 1 from the Derech Ami (the Way, Road of My People). 1

Luke 1:6And they were both tzaddikim before Hashem, walking a derech tamim in all the mitzvos and chukkim of the Torah of Adoneinu. + 1:6 Gn 6:9; Dt 5:30; 1Kgs 9:4

Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:14-16

The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. The apostle here represents the privileges we Christians have above… Read the whole commentary →

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