“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;”
By setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations — Christ abolished (katargeuō, 'rendered inoperative') the nomos ('law') with its entolai kai dogmata ('commandments and ordinances'), not annulling the law's authority but its divisive power as the means of Jewish-Gentile separation. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace — the telos ('purpose'): to create (ktizō, a new creation verb) hena kainon anthrōpon ('one new humanity'), a unified people transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, the eschatalogical humanity anticipated in Adam and now realized in the church.
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