Col 2:8 | Family | STEP | Lest any man spoil you ; literally, make booty of you; rob you of spiritual blessings by leading you to depend on something besides Christ for salvation. Rudiments of the world ; the Mosaic ceremonies, so called as containing, in comparison with the gospel of Christ, only the first elements of religion, even when rightly used; while they were so perverted by the false teachers, that they fed the spirit of worldly confidence, and made those who trusted in them carnal, instead of spiritual.

Colossians 2:8

Lest any man spoil you; literally, make booty of you; rob you of spiritual blessings by leading you to depend on something besides Christ for salvation.

Rudiments of the world; the Mosaic ceremonies, so called as containing, in comparison with the gospel of Christ, only the first elements of religion, even when rightly used; while they were so perverted by the false teachers, that they fed the spirit of worldly confidence, and made those who trusted in them carnal, instead of spiritual.