Explainer / Torah
Colossians 2:16–17
Therefore let no man judge you in food, or in drink, or in regard to a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Messiah’s.
Μὴ οὖν τις ὑμᾶς κρινέτω ἐν βρώσει ἢ ἐν πόσει ἢ ἐν μέρει ἑορτῆς ἢ νουμηνίας ἢ σαββάτων, ἅ ἐστιν σκιὰ τῶν μελλόντων, τὸ δὲ σῶμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ.
We kept the ASV's wording, in modern English ("food" for "meat," "in regard to" for "in respect of"), with "Messiah's" for "Christ's."
Why
βρῶσις and πόσις
are the acts of eating and drinking, or food and drink.
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"Meat" in the ASV meant food in general; "food" says the same thing in modern English.
"Feast, new moon, sabbath."
The same three appear together as a list of the appointed times in the Tanakh (1 Chr 23:31, 2 Chr 2:4, Ezek 45:17, Hos 2:11).
ἅ ἐστιν, "which are."
The verb is present tense, and the ASV's "are" keeps it.
τὸ δὲ σῶμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ
reads word for word "but the body of the Messiah." The Greek has no verb here.
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The ASV supplies "is" and renders the genitive as "Messiah's" ("the body is Messiah's"). We kept that, since English needs a verb in the clause.