The Law Was a Shadow

COLOSSIANS 2:17

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

This proves that verses 14-16 was about Moses' Law. Moses' Law was a shadow of things to come. Extra-Biblical Jewish traditions were not.

This tenses in this verse don't mean that the Law continues, because:

1. If the Law continues, it contradicts what Paul was seeking to establish by these verses.

2. The body is of Christ. Christ has already come. Therefore the shadow is passed. The things written in the Law are a shadow. But that doesn't mean the body hasn't come. Therefore we don't keep doing the shadow.