“Non è infatti la circoncisione che conta, né la non circoncisione, ma l'essere nuova creatura.”

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= For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.

TEXT ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATIONS

GNT   οὔτε γὰρ περιτομή τί ἐστιν οὔτε ἀκροβυστία ἀλλὰ καινὴ κτίσις.

oúte-οὔτε           (oúte-οὔτε-cc-G3777 ) = L: Neque I: né E: Neither

gàr-γὰρ (gár-γάρ-cc-G1063 ) = L: enim I: infatti E: for

peritomḗ-περιτομή         (peritomḗ-περιτομή-nnfsc-G4061 ) = L: circumcisio I: circoncisione E: circumcision

tí-τί         (tìs-τὶς-rinns-G5100 ) = L: aliquid I: qualcosa E: anything

estin-ἐστιν          (eimí-εἰμί-vipa3s-G1510 ) = L: est I: è, E: is,

oúte-οὔτε           (oúte-οὔτε-cc-G3777 ) = L: neque I: né E: nor

akrobystía-ἀκροβυστία (akrobystía-ἀκροβυστία-nnfsc-G203 ) = L: praeputium I: prepuzio E: uncircumcision;

allà-ἀλλὰ             (allá-ἀλλά-cc-G235 ) = L: sed I: ma E: instead

kainḕ-καινὴ        (kainós-καινός-annfsn-G2537 ) = L: nova I: nuova E: a new

ktísis.-κτίσις.      (ktísis-κτίσις-nnfsc-G2937 ) = L: creatura. I: creatura E: creation.

NOV  Neque enim circumcisio aliquid est neque praeputium sed nova creatura.

PHILOLOGICAL ANNOTATIONS

ἀκροβυστία, (ἡ): a word unknown to the Greeks, who used ἡ ἀκροποσθία and τό ἀκροπόσθιον, from πόσθη i. e. membrum virile. Accordingly it is likely that τήν ποσθην of the Greeks was pronounced τήν βύστην by the Alexandrians, and ἀκροβυστία said instead of ἀκροπόσθια -- i. e. τό ἄκρον τῆς πόσθης, in the Septuagint the equivalent of עָרְלָה the prepuce, the skin covering the glans penis; a. properly:  Acts 11:3; Rom. 2:25,26{b}; 1 Cor. 7:19; Gal. 5:6; 6:15; Col. 3:11; (Judith 14:10; 1 Macc. 1:15); ἐν ἀκροβυστία ὤν having the foreskin (Tertullian praeputiatus), uncircumcised i. e. Gentile, Rom. 4:10; ἐν ἀκροβυστία, namely, ὤν, 1 Cor. 7:18; equivalent, to the same is δι᾽ ἀκροβυστίας, Rom. 4:11; ἡ ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστία πίστις the faith which one has while he is uncircumcised, Rom. 4:11f, b. by metonyny, of the abstract for the concrete, having the foreskin is equiv, to a Gentile:  Rom. 2:26{a}; 3:30; 4:9; Eph. 2:11; ἡ ἐκ φύσεως ἀκροβυστία, one uncircumcised by birth or a Gentile, opposed to a Jew who shows himself a Gentile in character, Rom. 2:27; εὐαγγέλιον τῆς ἀκροβυστίας gospel to be preached to the Gentiles, Gal. 2:7. c. in a transferred sense: ἡ ἀκροβυστία τῆς σαρκός (opposed to the περιτομή ἀχειροποίητος or regeneration, Col. 2:11), "the condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the σάρξ were not yet extinct," Col. 2:13 (the expression is derived from the circumstance that the foreskin was the sign of impurity and alienation from God. –  The f.n. ἀκροβυστία appears the first time in Genesis 17,11, “You are to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin [LXX: καὶ περιτμηθήσεσθε τὴν σάρκα τῆς ἀκροβυστίας ὑμῶν =  וּנְמַלְתֶּם אֵת בְּשַׂר עָרְלַתְכֶם   = et circumcidetis carnem praeputii vestri]; this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.” NOTICE:  וּנְמַלְתֶּם  is וְ particle conjunction + H5243 נָמַל namal, “to circumcise, become clipped, be circumcised, be cut off”, here niphal waw consec perfect 2nd person masculine plural. Cfr. H5243 (= to be cut down) in HOT, Job 14,2; 18,16; 24,24; Ps 37,2. - The Council of Jerusalem in Acts of the Apostles 15 addressed the issue of whether circumcision was required of new converts to Christianity. Both Simon Peter and James the Just spoke against requiring circumcision in Gentile converts and the Council ruled that circumcision was not necessary.

RELATED TEXTS: 3 GREEK WORDS IN COMMON

[3] Rom 2:25  For circumcision is indeed of value if you do what Torah says. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision!

[3] Rom 4:10  but what state was he in when it was so credited circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision!

[3] Rom 4:11  In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him,

[3] 1Co 7:19  Being circumcised means nothing, and being uncircumcised means nothing; what does mean something is keeping God's commandments.

SEMANTIC PARALLEL TEXTS

Rom 8,1 (Therefore, there is no longer any condemnation [Οὐδὲν ἄρα νῦν κατάκριμα = Nihil ergo nunc damnationis est] awaiting those who are in union with the Messiah Yeshua.); 1 Cor 7,19; 2 Cor 5,17 (Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation [καινὴ κτίσις·= nova creatura] - the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new!); Gal 5,6; Eph 2,10; 4,24; Col 3,10-11 (v10: and have put on the new self [καὶ ἐνδυσάμενοι τὸν νέον = et induistis novum], which is continually being renewed in fuller and fuller knowledge, closer and closer to the image of its Creator.); Rev 21,5 (Then the One sitting on the throne said, "Look! I am making everything new!" [ἰδοὺ καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα = Ecce nova facio omnia] Also he said, "Write, 'These words are true and trustworthy!'")

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