...joints and bands, having nourishment ministered and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments...using, after the commandments and doctrines of men." He does not say, Wherefore, if ye be dead and buried with Christ, by plunging into the elements or...

...clears that, and makes a distinction, when he saith to the church of Christ, the Colossians, ' that if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the...using,) after the commandments and doctrines of men.' So you may see here, ordinances, and doctrines, and commandments of men concerning men's religions,...

...and for the praise of them that do well. And whereas the apostle saith, Col. ii. ' Wherefore if you be dead with Christ, from the rudiments of the world...using, after the commandments and doctrines of men V Now these ordinances, these doctrines, these commandments, were concerning religion and worship ;...

...springing from the force of natural reason, not from the revelation of the Divine word. Verses 20, 21 . Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments...subject to ordinances ; Touch not, taste not, handle not ? From this twentieth verse to the end of the Chapter, the Apostle concludes against the last appearance...

...ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living hi the world, are you subject to ordinances? Touch not, taste not, handle...commandments and doctrines of men. Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the...

...precepts. — Thus much concerning the second argument from the origin of these commands. Verse 23. Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship...the body ; not in any honour to the satisfying of thejlesh, In these words of the Apostle we have a censure of human rites and traditions which are obtruded...

...was, " if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why as living in the world are you subject to ordinances; touch not, taste not, handle...using, after the commandments and doctrines of men." Now, [mark,] is there any ordinances, doctrines, and commandments of men, those held up by men's power?...

...organization, ordinances, forms, and the pomp of circumstance and power. But why, says the Word of God, if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the...living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances after the commandments and doctrines of men, as if the church were a mere worldly corporation ? These...

...themselves complete in Christ (v. 10), and dead with Him from the rudiments of the world, they are subject to ordinances, (touch not, taste not, handle...using,) after the commandments and doctrines of men : (vv. 20 — 22.) Perhaps a principal source of all these evils has been their neglect of St. Paul's...

...14. ßeware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men. d to Jerusalem. £». viii. 3. Moreover, the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto arc to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things indeed have...