...3. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world Col. ii. 17. Which are a shadow of things to -come ; but the body is of Christ. e 1 Cor. v. 7. Purge out therefore 'he old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened...

...epistle to the Colossians, " Let no man, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days."* Here the Sabbath is considered as falling with the whole body of the ritual law of Moses. And this...

...the way, nailing it to his cross: Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in resfiect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days. "In this passage the apostle is clearly speaking of burdensome ordinances: of something that was against...

...and that in opposition unto the shadow which the law had of them, as it is here also. Col. ii. 17. ' Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.' And we are not without cogent reasons to depart from the explication of the metaphor there given us....

...worship, in a great measure, consisted in the religious observance of holydays ; " which," says Paul, " are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ." The " body" being come, the " shadow" (typical representation) is laid aside as useless. Accordingly,...

...took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, ' 0 0 73 In these places the apostle seems plainly to represent the abolishing of the ritual ordinances of the...

...gospel-dispensation ; and therefore he says, in Col. ii. 16, 17. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon,...the Sabbath days ; -which are a shadow of things to comet but the body is of Christ. Answ. To this it may be replied, that by the Sabbath days, which are...

...and therefore he says, in Col. ii. 16, 17. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, c,r in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or...the Sabbath days ; which are a shadow of things to comes but the body is of Christ. Answ. To this it may be replied, that by the Sabbath days, which are...

...sabbath, or ceremonial part is done away with ; for saith he, " Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the SabbathDays :" (ii, 16.) if the sense of these passages be determined by the context, it will appear...

...witness and bear testimony "to somewhat beyond themselves; that they were " as St. Paul describes them, " a shadow of things "to come, but the body is of Christ." The example " and shadow of heavenly things. The pot of manna " (Exod. xvi. 33d) is in the following...