Colossians 2:8

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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

After the tradition

1 Peter 1:18

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 that you do not forget Jehovah, for he brought you out of Egypt your house of bondage.

Watch out for the false prophets. They are disguised as sheep. But in their hearts they are vicious wolves.

Beware of men! They will take you to court! They will have you beaten in their meeting places.

Jesus said: Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Beware of the dogs (impure men) (false teachers)! Beware of the evil workers! Beware of the mutilation of the body.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, avoid being carried away with the error of the wicked and falling from your own steadfastness.

Spoil

Let no man rob you of your prize by a self-abasement and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things that he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

(Her Brothers) Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Do not let the prophets or the mediums among you trick you. Do not even listen to your own dreams.

Now I beseech you, brothers, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine you have learned and avoid them.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. It is because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Do not be carried away by varied (different) and strange teachings. It is good that the heart is established by grace and not by food. Those who are occupied by them are not benefited.

Watch yourselves that you do not lose the things that we worked to produce. You may receive a full reward.

Philosophy

The Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said: What is this babbler saying? Others: He seems to be advocating strange gods because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

It is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. (Isaiah 29:14)

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

But someone will say: How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?

We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

This kind of talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus.

But evil men and impostors will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

After the tradition

These are the precepts and doctrines of men.

They questioned him: Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)

I advanced as a Jew beyond many of my own age among my countrymen. I was more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

The rudiments

If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:

When we were children, we too were held in bondage. We were slaves to the arrangement of this world.

You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.

After christ

But you did not learn Christ that way.

General references

They will not follow a stranger but will flee from him. They do not know the voice of a stranger.