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Gal 6:15. Οὔτε γὰρ περιτομή τι ἐστὶν οὔτε ἀκροβυστία[65]) So it is according to a very old reading. The more recent reading is in conformity with ch. Gal 5:6.[66] Both circumcision and uncircumcision are not merely of no avail [ἰσχύει], but they are [ἔστιν] nothing: but there is truly [something, nay, everything in] the new creature and glorying in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.-καινὴ κτίσις) the new creation arising from the cross of Christ, Eph 2:15-16. This is opposed to “old things,” 2Co 5:17.
[65] Tischend. reads οὔτε γὰρ, omitting ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, with B Syr. and Theb. But Lachm. and Rec. Text read the latter words, with ACD(Δ)Gfg Vulg. Rec. Text has ἰσχύει with Vulg.; but ABCDGfg Origen have ἔστιν.-ED.
[66] The Germ. Vers. agrees with the Gnomon here, although the larger Ed. has reckoned the shorter reading among those less sure. The margin of the 2d Ed., by the mark β, agrees with the Gnomon and the Vers. There is the same reason for the word ἐστιν, to which, by a more recent decision, ἰσχύει ought to yield.-E. B.