Colossians 2:21

Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance II.10Book II

  ““Touch not,” it is said, “nor attend to those things which tend to corruption by their very use, for the very customs of this life corrupt integrity.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 21. We have here an instance of a very extreme kind, of the way in which St. Ambrose and other writers occasionally quote the words of holy Scripture…

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• Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy I.36Book I

  “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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John Cassian

• John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11Conference XIV

  “But one who has forsaken both these kinds of fornication, will have a third kind to avoid, which is contained in the superstitions of the law and of Judaism; of which the Apostle says: “Ye observe days and months and times and years;” and again: Touch not, taste not, handle not.”” — editor's note: Gal. iv. 10; Col. ii. 21.

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• John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31Book VII

  “Wherefore I pray and beseech you, you who live within the circuit of Constantinople, and who are my fellow-citizens through the love of my country, and my brothers through the unity of the faith; separate yourselves from that ravening wolf who (as it is written) devours the people of God, as if they were bread.” — editor's note: Ps. xiii. (xiv.) 4; Col. ii. 21, 23; 2 Cor. vi. 17.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.18Book V

  “…meats—“you must not touch, you must not taste”—in a voluntary humility, (at the same time) “vainly puffed up in the fleshly mind, and not holding the Head,” (the apostle) does not in these terms attack the law or Moses, as if it was at the suggestion of superstitious angels that he had enacted his prohibition of…” — editor's note: Col. ii. 18, 19, 21.

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• Revelation 5:4

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.

• Revelation 17:4

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.

• Exodus 20:14

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.

• Psalm 14:4

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.

• Psalm 102:9

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.

• Psalm 119:136

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.

• Isaiah 47:13

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.

• Jeremiah 3:6

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.

• Hosea 4:12

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.

• Matthew 16:24

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.

• 2 Corinthians 6:17

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.

• 2 Corinthians 11:2

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.

• Galatians 4:10

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.11.