15. availeth--The oldest manuscripts read, "is" (compare
Ga 5:6).
Not only are they of no avail, but they are nothing. So
far are they from being matter for "glorying," that they are "nothing."
But Christ's cross is "all in all," as a subject for glorying, in "the
new creature"
(Eph 2:10, 15, 16).
new creature--
(2Co 5:17).
A transformation by the renewal of the mind
(Ro 12:2).
JFB.
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