SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:21
No toques, No gustes, No trates?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Colossians 2:21
Verse 21. Touch not; taste not; handle not] These are forms of expression very frequent among the Jews. In Maccoth, fol. xxi. 1: "If they say to a Nazarite, Don't drink, don't drink; and he, notwithstanding, drinks; he is guilty. If they say, Don't shave, don't shave; and he shaves, notwithstanding; he is guilty. If they say, Don't put on these clothes, don't put on these clothes; and he, notwithstanding, puts on heterogeneous garments; he is guilty." See more in Schoettgen.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. Touch not, taste not, handle not .] This the apostle says, not of himself, but in the person of the Jewish doctors; who urging the use of the ceremonial law, to which they added decrees and constitutions of their own, said, “touch not” the dead body of any man, the bone of a man, or a grave, any man or woman in their uncleanness; not only their flesh, but the bed they lay on, or the seat they sat on; or any creature that was by the law unclean; of a Gentile, or any notorious sinner, or common man: hence the Pharisees used to wash themselves when they returned from market, lest they should have been by any means accidentally defiled by touching any thing unclean. There is a treatise in their Misna, called Oholot, which gives many rules, and is full of decrees about things [gmb µyamjm , “that defile by touching”. And so they likewise said, “taste not”, neither the fat, nor the blood of any creature which might be eaten itself, nor swine's flesh, nor the flesh of any creature that chewed the cud, or divided the hoof; nor might the Nazarites taste wine, or strong drink, or vinegar made of either, or moist grapes, or even the kernels and husks; and if a man ate but the quantity of an olive of any of the above things, he was, according to the Jewish canons, to be cut off, or beaten f47 : and they also said, “handle not”; or, as the Syriac and Arabic read, “do not come near”, or “draw not nigh”, to a Gentile, to one of another nation, or any unclean person, to whom they forbid any near approach or conversation; or “handle not” any of the above things. Some think that these several rules have respect only to meats; as “touch not”, that is, do not eat of things forbidden ever so little; nay, “taste not”, do not let anything of them come within your lips; yea, “handle not”, do not so much as touch them with your fingers. Others think that touch not regards abstinence from women; (see 1 Corinthians 7:1); and respects the prohibition of marriage by some in those times; and “taste not”, the forbearance of certain meats, at certain times, which God had not restrained any from; and “handle not”, that is, make no use of, or enjoy your own goods, and so designs that voluntary poverty which some entered into under the direction of false teachers.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-23 - It looked like humility to apply to angels, as if men were conscious of their unworthiness to speak directly to God. But it is not warrantable it is taking that honour which is due to Christ only, and giving it to a creature. There really was pride in this seeming humility. Those wh worship angels, disclaim Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and man. It is an insult to Christ, who is the Head of the church, to use any intercessors but him. When men let go their hold of Christ they catch at what will stand them in no stead. The body of Christ is growing body. And true believers cannot live in the fashions of the world. True wisdom is, to keep close to the appointments of the gospel in entire subjection to Christ, who is the only Head of his church Self-imposed sufferings and fastings, might have a show of uncommo spirituality and willingness for suffering, but this was not "in an honour" to God. The whole tended, in a wrong manner, to satisfy the carnal mind, by gratifying self-will, self-wisdom, self-righteousness and contempt of others. The things being such as carry not with them s much as the show of wisdom; or so faint a show that they do the soul n good, and provide not for the satisfying of the flesh. What the Lor has left indifferent, let us regard as such, and leave others to the like freedom; and remembering the passing nature of earthly things, le us seek to glorify God in the use of them __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
μη 3361 αψη 680 5672 μηδε 3366 γευση 1089 5667 μηδε 3366 θιγης 2345 5632
Vincent's NT Word Studies
21. Touch - taste - handle (ayh - geush - qighv). %Aptomai, A.V., touch, is properly to fasten one's self to or cling to. So John xx. 17 (note). Frequently rendered touch in the New Testament, and used in most cases of Christ's touching or being touched by the diseased. To get hands on so as to injure, 1 John v. 18. To have intercourse with, 1 Corinthians vii. 1; 2 Cor. vi. 17. Thus, in every case, the contact described exerts a modifying influence, and a more permanent contact or effect of contact is often implied than is expressed by touch. "The idea of a voluntary or conscious effort is often involved." No single English word will express all these phases of meaning. Handle comes, perhaps, as near as any other, especially in its sense of treatment, as when we say that a speaker or writer handles a subject; or that a man is roughly handled by his enemies. This wider and stronger sense does not attach to qigganein A.V., handl
