Colossians 2:20

Als (Since) you died with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the ikkarim (basic principles) of the Olam Hazeh, why, as though you still belonged to the keyam (existence) of the Olam Hazeh, do you (Goyim) chain yourself to chumra legalisms?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

In Context

19And not holding on to the Rosh, out of whom all the Moshiachʼs Guf, being fully supplied and being be'ichud (united) together through the joints and ligaments, grows with the growth of Hashem.

21“Do not touch; do not taste; do not handle.”

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Cross References

John 15:19If you were of the Olam Hazeh, the Olam Hazeh would have had ahavah for its own. But because from the Olam Hazeh you are not, but I chose you out of the Olam Hazeh, therefore the Olam Hazeh has sin'as chinom for you. + 15:19 1Y 4:5; Yn 17:14

Romans 6:2Chas v'shalom! Vi-bahlt (since) we have died to Chet, how can we still live in it?

2 Corinthians 10:3For though walking in basar, we war not according to the basar,

Galatians 4:3So also we, when we were immature, had been enslaved under the yesodot (rudiments) of the Olam Hazeh.

Galatians 6:14But may it not be to me to boast, except in HaEtz HaMoshiach + 6:14 Dt 21:23 Yehoshua Adoneinu, through whom the Olam Hazeh has become nevelah talui al HaEtz + 6:14 Dt 21:23 (corpse hanging on the tree) to me, and I have become a nevelah talui al HaEtz (corpse hanging on the tree) to the Olam Hazeh.

Colossians 2:8Beware lest there be anyone of you taken captive through philosophical tevunah (wisdom) and empty deceit according to the kabbalah (oral tradition) of mere Bnei Adam, according to the ikkarim (basic principles) of the Olam Hazeh and not according to Moshiach;

Matthew Henry on Colossians 2:17-23

The Glory of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment… Read the whole commentary →

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