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Col 2:16. οὖν, therefore) The therefore is deduced from Col 2:8-15. See Col 2:16 (comp. note on Col 2:20), ch. Col 3:1; Col 3:5; Col 3:12.-κρινέτω, let no man judge) A Metonymy of the antecedent for the consequent, i.e. attend to no one who attempts to judge you; so Col 2:18.-ἐν βρώσει, in meat) He says less than he wishes to be understood (Tapeinosis).[13]-ἘΝ ΜΈΡΕΙ ἙΟΡΤῆς, [in part or partly] in respect of a holiday) The expression, [in part or partly] in respect, here seems to have the power of separating. One might disturb believers on the subject of meat and drink (Col 2:21), another again about holidays. The holiday is yearly; the new moon, monthly; the sabbaths, weekly. Comp. Gal 4:10, note.-ἢ σαββάτων, or of sabbaths) The plural for the singular, Mat 12:1 : but it is used here significantly [with express design]; for the several days of the week are called Sabbaths, Mat 28:1 [ὀψὲ δὲ σαββάτων. See Gnom. there]; therefore Paul intimates here that all distinction of days is taken away; for he never wrote more openly concerning the Sabbath. Christ, after that He Himself, the Lord of the Sabbath, had come, or else before His suffering, in no obscure language taught the liberty of the Sabbath; but He asserted it more openly by Paul after His resurrection. Nor has it yet been expressly defined what degree of obligation is to be assigned to the Sabbath, what to the Lord’s day; but this has been left to the measure of every one’s faith. The Sabbath is not cited as authoritative [laudatur], is not commanded; the Lord’s day is mentioned, not enjoined. An appointed [a definite and fixed] day is useful and necessary to those who are rather deeply immersed and engrossed in the concerns of the world. They who always sabbatize [they who keep a continual Sabbath], enjoy greater liberty. The Sabbath is a type even of eternal things, Heb 4:3-4; but yet its obligation does not on that account continue in the New Testament, otherwise the new moons should be retained, Isa 66:23.[14]
[13] See App.
[14] For there we find in a future state an antitype to the new moons as well as to the Sabbath, which would prove too much.-ED.