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Judging the Sabbath: Discovering What Can’t Be Found in Colossians 2:16 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sabbatarians have argued for centuries that the “sabbath” of Colossians 2:16 refers to the Jewish ceremonial sabbaths, and not the Decalogue Sabbath, based on a plain-sense reading of the context. Traditional Christian interpretation of that passage has generally bypassed the context and relied on other arguments, often unexamined by careful exegesis. In this book, du Preez examines those other...

Of these ninety-two commentaries, eighty-eight assume, imply, or directly claim that the sabbata in Colossians 2:16 refers to the seventh-day Sabbath. Among these eighty-eight, forty-three commentaries engaged in no exegesis on this point, but merely implied or stated that Colossians 2:16 had the yearly-monthly-weekly calendar sequence.3 The other forty-five commentaries did engage in some exegesis, such as determining whether the term sabbata should be rendered
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