2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! — the ktisis (creation) language echoes Genesis 1. In-Christ-ness means being a new creature (kainos); the old order is passed (parelythe), the new inaugurated (ginen). This is not moral improvement but ontological transformation.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 5:17
“Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.” For seeing he had exhorted unto virtue from His love, he now leads them on to this from what has been actually done for them; wherefore also he added, “If any man is in Christ,” he is “a new creature.” “If any,” says he, “have believed in Him, he has come to another creation, for he has been born again by the Spirit.” So that for this cause also, he says, we ought to live unto Him, not because we are not our own…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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