Colossians 2:17

Which are a shadow of things to come,.... By Christ, and under the Gospel dispensation; that is, they were types, figures, and representations of spiritual and evangelical things: the different "meats…

Which are a shadow of things to come - See the notes at Heb 8:5; Heb 10:1, note. They were only a dim outline of future things, not the reality. But the body is of Christ - The reality, the substance.…

Which are a shadow - All these things were types, and must continue in force till the Christ, whom they represented, came; the apostle therefore says that the body - the substance or design of them…

The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to proper duty, which he infers from the foregoing discourse.

I. Here is a caution to take heed of judaizing teachers, or those who would impose…

a shadow Cp. Heb 8:5; Heb 10:1. The word suggests the idea of "an image cast by an object and representing its form." (Grimm's N.T. Lexicon, ed. Thayer.)

things to come from the point of view of the…