Colossians 2:22 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on Colossians 2:22

“Handle not, nor taste, nor touch; all which things are to perish with the using; after the precepts and doctrines of men.” You are not in the world, he says, how is it you are subject to its elements? How to its observances? And mark how he makes sport of them, “touch not, handle not, taste not,” as though they were cowards and keeping themselves clear of some great matters, “all which things are to perish with the using.” He has taken down the swollenness of the many, and…