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that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.
你們要謹慎,恐怕有人用他的理學和虛空的妄言,不照着基督,乃照人間的遺傳和世上的小學就把你們擄去。
2:9
ዘላዕሌሁኀደረኵሉመለኮቱበሥጋሰብእ።
For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
因為上帝本性一切的豐盛都有形有體地居住在基督裏面,
2:10
ወአንትሙሂኩኑፍጹማነቦቱእስመውእቱርእሱለኵሉመኰንንወለኵሉመንግሥት።
and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
你們從前在過犯和未受割禮的肉體中死了,上帝赦免了你們 一切過犯,便叫你們與基督一同活過來;
2:14
ወደምሰሰለነመጽሐፈዕዳነበሥርዐቱእምዕድውነወአእተቶእማእከሌነወቀነዎበመስቀሉ።
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
又塗抹了在律例上所寫、攻擊我們、有礙於我們的字據,把它撤去,釘在十字架上。
2:15
ወበሰሊቦቱአስተኀፈሮሙለቀደምትወለመኳንንትወአስተኀፈሮሙበተከሥቶህላዌሁ።
Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
不持定元首。全身既然靠着他,筋節得以相助聯絡,就因上帝大得長進。
2:20
ወእመሞትክሙምስለክርስቶስእምንብረተዝዓለምበእፎካዕበከመዘሕያዋንውስተዓለምትገብሩ።
If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.