17. The same idea, that in Christ there is a new way of “seeing” since he has made all things new, is repeated. ἐν Χριστῷ governs the expression καινὴ κτίσις, “new creation,” not τις, “anyone.” So it is less than correct to interpret the v as describing a person’s conversion after the analogy of new birth (John 3:3, 5, 7). But see J. Reumann, Righteousness, 51 and n. 65, for the translation “new creature.” The accent falls on a person (τις) entering the new order in Christ, thus making the καινῆ