15 And hath spoiled the [a]Principalities, and Powers, and hath [b]made a show of them openly, and hath triumphed over them in the [c]same cross.

16 [d]Let no man therefore condemn you in meat and drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days,

17 Which are but a shadow of things to come: but the [e]body is in Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:15 Satan and his angels.
  2. Colossians 2:15 As a conqueror made by a show of those captives, and put them to shame.
  3. Colossians 2:15 The cross was as a chariot of triumph. No conqueror could have triumphed so gloriously in his chariot, as Christ did upon the cross.
  4. Colossians 2:16 The conclusion: wherein also he nameth certain kinds, as the difference of days and meats, and proveth by a new argument that we are not bond unto them: to wit, because those things were shadows of Christ to come but we possess him now exhibited unto us.
  5. Colossians 2:17 The body as a thing of substance and pith, he setteth against shadows.

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