However, it is clear that he also used the term as embracing things of a Jewish nature, not only non-Biblical Jewish teachings calling for asceticism or “worship of the angels,” but also the teaching that Christians should put themselves under obligation to keep the Mosaic law.—Col. 2:16-18; Gal. 4:4, 5, 21.
... However, it had now been fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the “reality” to which its shadows pointed, and it was therefore obsolete. (Col. 2:13-17)