Colossians ii, 14, 16

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Verse 14. Blotting out of the hand-writing; abolishing the ceremonial law. Contrary to us; burdensome, and opposed to the believer's liberty and peace. Nailing it to his cross; showing, in his death, that its binding power was dead.

Verse 16. Judge you; pronounce you good or bad, according to your treatment of the ceremonial law. A holy-day—Sabbath-days; in the original, a festival—Sabbaths. The days referred to are those required to be observed in the ceremonial law; days associated by God with meats, drinks, and new moons. The passage does not refer to the Sabbath of the moral law, associated with the commands forbidding the theft, murder, and adultery. This weekly Sabbath was never against men or contrary to them, but was always for them, and promotive of their highest good. The observance of it caused them to ride upon the high places of the earth, and to possess the heritage of God's people. Isa. lviii, 13, 14; Jer. xvii, 21, 27.

Notes on the New Testament by Justin Edwards, D. D.

Colossians ii, 14, 16.