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# he is a new creation
Alternate translation: "he is a new person". Paul speaks of the person who believes in Christ as if that person were a new person that God had created. The old and new creation probably refer to how Paul illustrates the old and new self.
# The old things have passed away
Here "the old things" refers to the things that characterized a person before he trusted in Christ.