“And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath — Paul shifts to ethical application: 'let no one judge' (krineō) you. 'Food and drink' (brōsis, potis) and observances (heortē, mēn, sabbaton) were false-teacher demands. These are Jewish regulations now claimed as salvific. 'Festivals and new moons and Sabbaths' were temporary shadow-realities; Christ is substance.
Church Fathers on Colossians 2:15
“Having forgiven us all our trespasses; having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the Cross; having put off from himself the principalities and the powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” “Having forgiven us,” he says, “all our trespasses,” those which produced that deadness. What then? Did He allow them to remain? No, He even wiped them out;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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