Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
Tuesday, August 06, 2024
Cosmic repercussions
The enormous creativity made possible by this vision of reality is immediately obvious: “For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but new creation (καινὴ κτίσις)” (6:15). As in [Gal] 5:6, Paul announces the irrelevance of taxonomic systems by which society had been divided in subtly hierarchical terms: old “antinomies” are here discounted in the wake of a new reality that has completely reordered the world. The connotations of the phrase “new creation” stretch well beyond individual conversion, gesturing to a cosmic refashioning awaited in the future (cf. 1:4).—J. M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift, 395
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