nailing it to His Cross.
002:015 And the hostile princes and rulers He shook off from Himself,
and boldly displayed them as His conquests, when by the Cross He
triumphed over them.
002:016 Therefore suffer no one to sit in judgement on you as to
eating or drinking or with regard to a festival, a new moon
or a sabbath.
002:017 These were a shadow of things that were soon to come,
but the substance belongs to Christ.
002:018 Let no one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on
his humility and on his worship of the angels, and taking
his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up
with his unspiritual thoughts.
002:019 Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head,
from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened
by its points of contact and its connections, grows with
a divine growth.
002:020 If you have died with Christ and have escaped from the world's
rudimentary notions, why, as though your life still belonged
to the world, do you submit to such precepts as
002:021 "Do not handle this;" "Do not taste that;" "Do not touch
that other thing"--
002:022 referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--
in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?
002:023 These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where
self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility
and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value
in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.
003:001 If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that
are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.