Colossians 2:20 (WEB)
If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Fathers and councils · 8
Tertullian
“But if it is of necessity that God grants us the symbol of death, then He does so unwillingly.” — editor's note: Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom. vi. 3, 4, 8; Col. ii. 12, 20.
Read the whole comment“And again: “If ye are dead with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?”” — editor's note: Ver. 20. The last clause in Tertullian is, “Quomodo sententiam fertis?”
Read the whole comment“For he says in another passage also: “How is it that you conduct yourselves as if you were even now living in the world?” where he is not writing to dead persons, but to those who ought to have ceased to live after the ways of the world.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 20.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 20, 21, 22.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For it was of this death that he also says, “Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ, why as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances?”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 20. Viventes de hoc mundo decernitis.
Read the whole comment“The apostle has called that death: “But if ye be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do ye judge concerning this world as if ye were still living?”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 20.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For it seems expedient that we, making an onslaught upon the opinion which constitutes the prime source of (contemporaneous) evils, should prove what are the originating principles of this (opinion), in order that its offshoots, becoming a matter of general notoriety, may be made the object of universal scorn.” — editor's note: [The Philosophumena, therefore, responds to the Apostle’s warnings. Col. ii. 8; 1 Tim. vi. 20; Gal. iv. 3, 9; Col. ii. 20.]
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Of this same thing to the Colossians: “If ye be dead with Christ from the elements of the world, why still, as if living in the world, do ye follow vain things?”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 20.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 6.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 46.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.