Handle not, nor taste, nor touch (μη αψη μηδε γευση μηδε θιγηις). Specimens of Gnostic rules. The Essenes took the Mosaic regulati…

Touch not; taste not; handle not. These words seem intended as a specimen of the kind of ordinances to which the apostle refers, or an imi…

Touch not; taste not; handle not.—The first and last of these renderings should be inverted. There is in the commands a c…

Therefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch n…

The “rules” Paul had in mind are such decrees as “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!” The reference is to the dietary restrictions the erro…

Eat not, taste not. Until now this has been rendered—Handle not; but as another word immediately follows which signifies the same…

Touch not, taste not, handle not .
] This the apostle says, not of himself, but in the person of the Jewish doctors;…

It looked like humility to appeal to angels, as if people were conscious of their unworthiness to speak directly to God. But it is not justifiable;…

Above, Paul showed that the law was fulfilled in Christ because of the circumcision he received, for this is an acknowledgment of the law. Here, he…