For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything. Whether you be Jew or Gentile matters nothing; neither brings you nearer Christ. What is of importance is a new creature, i.e, a soul regenerated in baptism, and fortified by grace to walk in newness of life. Cf. Revelation 3:14, where Christ is called "the beginning of the creation of God," and Isaiah 9:6, where He is called "the Father of the world that is to be " (Vulg.), for from Him began a new creation. Cf. too Virgil (Ecl. iv8), where Virgil transfers to Salonius, the newly born son of Asinius Pollio, Roman Consul, the predictions by the Cumæan Sibyl of the birth of Christ, in which the Christian era is described as a golden age.
