Colossians 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Beware

Spoil

2 John 1:8

Philosophy

2 Timothy 3:13

After the tradition

The rudiments

Colossians 2:20

Galatians 4:3

Ephesians 2:2

After christ

Ephesians 4:20

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

Beware

Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

Jesus said to them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

Spoil

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

Watch yourselves; you must not lose what you have been working for, but gain a full reward.

Philosophy

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise.

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

But, someone will ask, 'how do the dead rise? What kind of body have they when they come?'

and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus;

Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves;

After the tradition

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

The rudiments

As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

After christ

That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ

General references

they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."