When did/will the "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances" occur?
Colossians 2:14 (CLV)
erasing the handwriting of the
decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and has taken it away out of the midst, nailing it to the cross,
Lexicon :: Strong's G1378 - dogma
δόγμα
Transliteration
dogma
Pronunciation
do'g-mä (Key)
Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of
δοκέω (G1380)
Dictionary Aids
Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry
TDNT Reference: 2:230,178
KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G1378 in the following manner: decree (3x),
ordinance (2x).
Outline of Biblical Usage [?]
- doctrine, decree, ordinance
- of public decrees
- of the Roman Senate
- of rulers
- the rules and requirements of the law of Moses; carrying a suggestion of severity and of threatened judgment
- of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
δόγμα dógma, dog'-mah; from the base of
G1380; a law (civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical):—
decree, ordinance.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)
STRONGS NT 1378: δόγμα
δόγμα, δογματος, τό (from δοκέω, and equivalent to τό δεδογμενον), an opinion, a judgment (Plato, others), doctrine,
decree, ordinance;
1. of public
decrees (as τῆς πόλεως, Plato, legg. 1, p. 644 d.; of the Roman Senate (Polybius 6, 13, 2); Herodian, 7, 10, 8 (5, Bekker edition)): of rulers,
Luke 2:1;
Acts 17:7;
Hebrews 11:23 Lachmann (Theod. in
Daniel 2:13;
Daniel 3:10;
Daniel 4:3;
Daniel 6:13, etc. — where the Sept. uses other words).
2. of the rules and requirements of the law of Moses, 3Macc. 1:3; διατήρησις τῶν ἁγίων δογμάτων, Philo, alleg. legg. i., § 16; carrying a suggestion of severity, and of threatened punishment, τόν νόμον τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐν δογμασι, the law containing precepts in the form of
decrees (A. V. the law of commandments contained in ordinances),
Ephesians 2:15; τό καθ' ἡμῶν χειρόγραφον τοῖς δογμασι equivalent to τό τοῖς δογμασι (dative of instrument) by ὄν καθ' ἡμῶν, the bond against us by its
decrees,
Colossians 2:14; cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 10 Note 1 (Buttmann, 92 (80); on both passages see Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited).
3. of certain
decrees of the apostles relative to right living:
Acts 16:4. (Of all the precepts of the Christian religion: βεβαιωθῆναι ἐν τοῖς δόγμασιν τοῦ κυρίου καί τῶν ἀποστόλων, Ignatius ad Magnes. 13, 1 [ET]; of the precepts (`sentences' or tenets) of philosophers, in the later secular writings: Cicero, acad. 2, 9, 27de suis decretis, quae philosophi vocant dogmata.) (On the use of the word in general, see Lightfoot as above; (cf. 'Teaching' etc. 11, 3 [ET]).)
Source:
Genesis 1:1 (NASB)
Now why would Sha'ul use the word δόγμα in this verse?
I believe that he meant what he said, and said what he meant.
Anytime Paul is referring to THE LAW of Yahweh he used the phrase ho nomos which is
“The Law” in Greek.
So if THE LAW wasn't nailed to the (stake) pale; what was?
DECREE - Definition from the KJV Dictionary
DECREE, n. L. To judge; to divide.
1. Judicial decision or determination of a litigated cause; as a
decree of the court of
chancery. The decision of a court of equity is called a
decree; that of a court of law, a
judgment.
This is the gift of grace. Put into context, Sha'ul is not contradicting Yahshua, who said that the LAW will not pass away before heaven or earth. He's not telling us that we can live like lawless Hellians under grace because the LAW has been demolished. He's telling us that the judgements (under penalty of death) of our past sins are covered, through Yahshua, by the grace of Yahweh.
