Therefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
The problem is that the Colossians worship worldly things, put their hope in them, and not in Christ alone … so that these rules have been cut off from the head, who is Christ, and thus have become the basis of a pseudoreligion and a sacrilege. .