Theophylact of Ohrid, on Col 2:20

“If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?”

“Through baptism, he says, having died with Christ, you died to your entire former life, so that you would no longer serve the elements to which you were previously subject. Therefore, why do you submit to them again, as if living your former life? You consider one day fortunate and another unfortunate, but these are Hellenic observances. See how imperceptibly he mocks them, saying: "you submit to ordinances" – δογματίζεσθε. You, he says, like children who have just begun to learn, sit receiving teachings and instructions about what must be done.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.