jonathan.borland
Active Member
[ESV] Col. 2:18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
I'm reading the ESV through this year and was curious about its rendering of the Greek word for humility as "asceticism" in Col 2:18. If the translators are accurate here and people demanding ascetic fasting were troubling the early church, it would not be surprising if in some places orthodox leaders took steps to remove proof texts for these ascetic "cults," such as all of Matt 17:21, and the fasting words in Mark 9:29, Acts 10:30, 1 Cor 7:5.
I'm reading the ESV through this year and was curious about its rendering of the Greek word for humility as "asceticism" in Col 2:18. If the translators are accurate here and people demanding ascetic fasting were troubling the early church, it would not be surprising if in some places orthodox leaders took steps to remove proof texts for these ascetic "cults," such as all of Matt 17:21, and the fasting words in Mark 9:29, Acts 10:30, 1 Cor 7:5.