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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances. (Touch not; taste not; handle not; which, all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? You may and you should feel that there are some things which you will not touch, or taste,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Touch not, taste not, handle not. This the apostle says, not of himself, but in the person of the Jewish doctors; who urging the use of the ceremonial law, to which they added decrees and constitutions of their own, said, "touch not" the dead body of any man, the bone of a man, or a grave, any man or woman in their uncleanness; not only their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? I have actually seen this text quoted as though it stood as a matter of teaching,-“Touch not; taste not; handle not;”— whereas the apostle here means, “Why are ye subject to such ordinances of men when Christ has set you free...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which all are to perish with the using,.... Meaning either the ordinances concerning touching, tasting, and handling, which bring destruction and death on them that use them, and comply with them, in order to obtain righteousness and life; for instead of enjoying salvation through them, they were the cause of damnation to them. Or rather the meats...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom,.... The authors of them set up for men of wisdom, and were esteemed such, and are often styled חכמים, "wise men"; and their scholars that received their traditions, and explained and enforced them on others, החכמים תלמידי, "the disciples of the wise men": and they pretended, that these constitutions of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship,- There were some of the Jews who would not eat certain kinds of meat, and others who would fast for long periods. Some thought it was very wicked to eat flesh meat on a certain day, and there were many such notions; and similar superstitions still survive among us, such as not eating meat...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. This exposition consisted of readings from Col_2:6-23; and Col_3:1-3.