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PARALLEL BIBLE - Colossians 2:17


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King James Bible - Colossians 2:17

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

World English Bible

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

Douay-Rheims - Colossians 2:17

Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

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VERSE (17) - Joh 1:17 Heb 8:5; 9:9; 10:1

SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:17

lo cual es la sombra de lo que estaba por venir; mas el cuerpo es del Cristo.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:17

Verse 17. Which are a shadow] All these things were types, and must continue in force till the Christ, whom they represented, came; the apostle therefore says that the body - the substance or design of them was of Christ - pointed him out, and the excellent blessings which he has procured. The word skia, shadow, is often used to express any thing imperfect or unsubstantial; while the term swma, body, was used in the opposite sense, and expressed any thing substantial, solid, and firm. The law was but the shadow or representation of good things to come; none should rest in it; all that it pointed out is to be sought and obtained in Christ.

John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come , etc.] By Christ, and under the Gospel dispensation; that is, they were types, figures, and representations of spiritual and evangelical things: the different meats and drinks, clean and unclean, allowed or forbidden by the law, were emblems of the two people, the Jews and Gentiles, the one clean, the other unclean; but since these are become one in Christ, the distinction of meats is ceased, these shadows are gone; and also of the different food of regenerate and unregenerate souls, the latter feeding on impure food, the ashes and husks of sensual lusts, or their own works, the former on the milk and meat in the Gospel, the wholesome words of Christ; and likewise the clean meat was a shadow of Christ himself, whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose blood is drink indeed. The holy days, or feasts of the Jews, the feasts of tabernacles, of the passover and Pentecost, were types of Christ; the feast of tabernacles, though it was in remembrance of the Israelites dwelling in tents and booths when they came out of Egypt, yet was also a representation of the people of God dwelling in the earthly houses of their tabernacles here on earth; and particularly of Christ's dwelling, or tabernacling in human nature, and who likewise was born at the time of this feast; (see Gill on John 1:14). The passover, as it was a commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt, and of God's passing over their houses when he smote the firstborn of the Egyptians, so it was a type of Christ our passover sacrificed for us, and was kept by Moses in the faith of him, ( Hebrews 11:28); there is a very great resemblance, in many particulars, between Christ and the paschal lamb; (see Gill on 1 Corinthians 5:7). The feast of Pentecost, or the feast of harvest and firstfruits, was a shadow of the firstfruits of the Spirit, which Christ having received, gave to his disciples on that day; and of the harvest of souls to be gathered under the Gospel dispensation, of which the conversion of the three thousand on the day of Pentecost was an earnest and pledge. The new moon was typical of the church, which is fair as the moon, and receives all her light from Christ the sun of righteousness; and of the renewed state of the church under the Gospel dispensation, when the old things of the law are passed away, and all things relating to church order, ordinances, and discipline, are become new. The sabbaths were also shadows of future things; the grand sabbatical year, or the fiftieth year sabbath, or jubilee, in which liberty was proclaimed throughout the land, a general release of debts, and restoration of inheritances, prefigured the liberty we have by Christ from sin, Satan, and the law, the payment of all our debts by Christ, and the right we have through him to the heavenly and incorruptible inheritance. The seventh year sabbath, in which there was no tilling of the land, no ploughing, sowing, nor reaping, was an emblem of salvation through Christ by free grace, and not by the works of men; and the seventh day sabbath was a type of that spiritual rest we have in Christ now, and of that eternal rest we shall have with him in heaven hereafter: now these were but shadows, not real things; or did not contain the truth and substance of the things themselves, of which they were shadows; and though they were representations of divine and spiritual things, yet dark ones, they had not so much as the very image of the things; they were but shadows, and like them fleeting and passing away, and now are gone: but the body [is] of Christ : or, as the Syriac version reads it, the body is Christ; that is, the body, or sum and substance of these shadows, is Christ; he gave rise unto them, he existed before them, as the body is before the shadow; not only as God, as the Son of God, but as Mediator, whom these shadows regarded as such, and as such he cast them; and he is the end of them, the fulfilling end of them; they have all their accomplishment in him: and he is the body of spiritual and heavenly things; the substantial things and doctrines of the Gospel are all of Christ, they all come by him; all the truths, blessings, and promises of grace; are from him and by him, and he himself the sum of them all. The allusion seems to be to a way of speaking among the Jews, who were wont to call the root, foundation, substance, and essence of a thing, apwg , the body of it f37 : so they say f38 , the constitutions concerning the sanctification of the offerings and the tithes, are, both the one and the other, hrwt ypwg , the bodies, or substantial parts of the law: and again f39 , that the constitutions or rules about the sabbath, the festivals and prevarications, they are as mountains that hang by an hair; for the Scripture is small, and the constitutions are many; the judgments and the services, the purifications and uncleannesses, and the incests, they have, upon which they can support themselves, and these, and these, are hrwt ypwg , the bodies of the law: they say of a small section, or paragraph, that all the bodies of the law depend upon it: once more f41 , the sabbaths, and the good days (the feasts or holy days) are pwg , the bodies of the sign; which the phylacteries or frontlets were for; but our apostle says, that Christ is the body and substance of all these shadows, in opposition to these sayings and notions of the Jews: some connect this last clause with the former part of the following verse, rendering it as the Arabic version thus, because of the communion of the body of Christ, let no man condemn you; and the Ethiopic version thus, and let no man account you fools, because of the body of Christ, but there is nothing in the text to support these versions.

Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 8-17 - There is a philosophy which rightly exercises our reasonable faculties a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God and confirms our faith in him. But there is a philosophy which is vai and deceitful; and while it pleases men's fancies, hinders their faith such are curious speculations about things above us, or no concern to us. Those who walk in the way of the world, are turned from followin Christ. We have in Him the substance of all the shadows of the ceremonial law. All the defects of it are made up in the gospel of Christ, by his complete sacrifice for sin, and by the revelation of the will of God. To be complete, is to be furnished with all thing necessary for salvation. By this one word "complete," is shown that we have in Christ whatever is required. "In him," not when we look to Christ, as though he were distant from us, but we are in him, when, by the power of the Spirit, we have faith wrought in our hearts by the Spirit, and we are united to our Head. The circumcision of the heart the crucifixion of the flesh, the death and burial to sin and to the world, and the resurrection to newness of life, set forth in baptism and by faith wrought in our hearts, prove that our sins are forgiven and that we are fully delivered from the curse of the law. Throug Christ, we, who were dead in sins, are quickened. Christ's death wa the death of our sins; Christ's resurrection is the quickening of ou souls. The law of ordinances, which was a yoke to the Jews, and partition-wall to the Gentiles, the Lord Jesus took out of the way When the substance was come, the shadows fled. Since every mortal ma is, through the hand-writing of the law, guilty of death, how very dreadful is the condition of the ungodly and unholy, who trample unde foot that blood of the Son of God, whereby alone this deadl hand-writing can be blotted out! Let not any be troubled about bigote judgments which related to meats, or the Jewish solemnities. The setting apart a portion of our time for the worship and service of God is a moral and unchangeable duty, but had no necessary dependence upo the seventh day of the week, the sabbath of the Jews. The first day of the week, or the Lord's day, is the time kept holy by Christians, in remembrance of Christ's resurrection. All the Jewish rites were shadow of gospel blessings.

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Vincent's NT Word Studies

17. Which are. Explanatory. Seeing they are. Referring to all the particulars of ver. 16.

Shadow of things to come. Shadow, not sketch or outline, as is shown by body following. The Mosaic ritual system was to the great verities of the Gospel what the shadow is to the man, a mere general type or resemblance.

The body is Christ's. The substance belongs to the Christian economy. It is derived from Christ, and can be realized only through union with Him.

Robertson's NT Word Studies

2:17 {A shadow} (skia). Old word, opposed to substance (swma, body). In #Heb 10:1 skia is distinguished from eikwn (picture), but here from swma (body, substance). The swma (body) casts the skia (shadow) and so belongs to Christ (cristou, genitive case).

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