First of all, citing the corrupted Jerome's vulgate [he himself addmitted to altering the text, the original vulgate, Vetus latina - the 'Italic', under orders, look it up - [
Link]] of the Roman Catholic church is not gonna get you very far, but more importantly, the word in the Koine Greek, is not "the decree", singular. It is clearly plural:
δογμασινG1378 N-DPN
Therefore, the Latin vulgate of Jerome is in error even at this point.
However, we simply go to the word, and see where elsewhere in scripture it is used. It is not used of the Ten Commandments.
The words "cheirografon toiV dogmasin"
never mean "certificate of debt" in scripture [and that is not a literal equivalency, and even more than a 'dynamic', but truly someone's own private [incorrect] paraphrase]
cheirografon – G5498 N-ASN
toiV – G3588 T-DPN
dogmasin – G1378 N-DPN
The word "cheirografon" literally means "cheiro" [hand] & "grafon" [writing]:
See "cheiro" [translated as “hand” 89 times or “hands” 90 times, per KJC] -
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G5495&t=KJB
See "grafon" [translated as “written” 121 times, or “write” 50 times, or “wrote” 21 times, or “describeth” 1 time or “writing” 1 time, per KJC] -
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G1125&t=KJB
And do
not merely take any concordance definition, but simply utilize the concordance to
look at all the Bible passages to see how the word is defined and used in scripture itself [as per Isaiah 28:10; 1 Corinthians 2:13 KJB, etc].
The word "toiV" can have several uses in scripture [KJB], and in this instance means "of" -
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3588&t=KJB
The word
"dogmasin" literally means "dogma" [see Websters 1828 for helpful def., but always remember to define scripture by scripture] which comes to be:
The related word in the very same passage of Colossians 2, is
"dogmatizesthe":
Colossians 2:20 KJB Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Yet we know that
the Ten Commandments are
not of this earth/world,
not carnal, but of Heaven, spiritual:
Exodus 20:22 KJB And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Romans 7:14 KJB For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
These are the carnal ordinances, even the law of commandments in ordinances, even the handwritten ordinances [by Moses] imposed upon Israel back in the books of Moses. It is not anyone ones sins here, for these "ordinances" were for the "worldly sanctuary" to do its service, and for sacrifices, etc, see also Ezekiel 43:18
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These [are] the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. Ezekiel 43:18
Luke 1:6 makes mention again of these, as other passages:
Luke 1:6 "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless."
Numbers 9:12 "They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it."
2 Chronicles 33:8 "... take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses."
These refer to things, even as found in Numbers 9:3 KJB
Numbers 9:3 KJB In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
In fact, when looking at the context of Colossians 2, in the handwritten [by Moses] “ordinances” thereof, we read nothing of the Ten Commandments, but only of things pertaining to the earthly sanctuary and its services, in carnal things, that came afterwards under the Levitical priesthood.
See also for further detail:
Even if we go to the so-called LXX [the work of Origen in his Hexapla, which Jerome admitted as being older than his own work], we see in Esther 3:9, that it deals with a
handwritten ordinance for the destruction of the Jews, written by a man, and nothing to do with moral Commandments of God, which were directly spoken by God Himself from Heaven.
