Colossians 3:10 (WEB)
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
Catechism · 1
“From that time on, God was to manifest his holiness by revealing and giving his name, in order to restore man to the image of his Creator.” — Catechism footnote: Col 3:10.
Fathers and councils · 27
Gregory of Nyssa
“This is the word of the mystery whereby through the new birth from above our nature is transformed from the corruptible to the incorruptible, being renewed from “the old man,” “according to the image of Him who created” at the beginning the likeness to the Godhead.” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iii. 10
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“Thus Paul, advising those who were able to hear him to lay hold on perfection, indicates also the mode in which they may attain that object, telling them that they must “put off the old man,” and put on the man “which is renewed after the image of Him that created him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…this is the result of labour to me,” he did not surely contemn the substance of flesh in that passage where he said, “Put ye off the old man with his works;” but he points out that we should lay aside our former conversation, that which waxes old and becomes corrupt; and for this reason he goes on to say, “And put…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
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Jerome
“For he has one Church, concerning which the same Apostle says, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 25; Col. iii. 9–11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Put off, by confession, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit, that ye may put on the new man, which is renewed according to knowledge of Him that created him.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22; Col. iii. 10.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.14Conference I
“…stupidity, even to have the slightest suspicion that the nobler part of man, in which as the blessed Apostle shows, the image and likeness of God consists, will, when the burden of the body with which it is oppressed in this world is laid aside, become insensible, when, as it contains in itself all the power of…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xi. 7; Col. iii. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But so soon as I understood, withal, that man made “after the image of Him that created him” was not so understood by Thy spiritual sons (whom of the Catholic mother Thou hadst begotten again through grace), as though they believed and imagined Thee to…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10, and Gen. i. 26, 27. And because we are created in the image of God, Augustin argues (Serm. lxxxviii. 6), we have the ability to see and know Him,…
Read the whole comment“Thus is man renewed in the knowledge of God, after the image of Him that created him; and being made spiritual, he judgeth all things,—all things that are to be judged,—“yet he himself is judged of no man.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
Read the whole comment“…of the heart, the call was made, that man should live according to the soul, that is, according to the inner man, who is also called the “new man” by reason of the new birth and the renewing of spiritual conversation.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
Read the whole comment“As though to conquered Jebusites, in order that there may be builded up Jerusalem, is said, “Put ye off the old man, and put on the new.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10; Eph. iv. 22, 24.
Read the whole comment“All this is not done but by pressure: therefore the Churches of God of this time are called winepresses.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10; Eph. iv. 22.
Read the whole comment“And again what saith he?” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“For where this image is, he doth himself declare, where he saith, “Lie not one to another; but stripping off the old man with his deeds, put ye on the new, which is renewed to the acknowledging of God, according to the image of Him who created him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10
Read the whole comment“For it is said to the new man, “which is renewed to the knowledge of God, after the image of Him that created him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10
Read the whole comment“For the opinion of the apostle is evident, which declares the inner man to be renewed in the knowledge of God after the image of Him that created him: whereas he says also in another place, “But though our outer man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10
Read the whole comment“…“Putting off the old man,” he says, “with his deeds; put on the new man, which is renewed to the knowledge of God after the image of Him that created him?”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10
Read the whole comment““Do you,” he says, “putting off the old man with his deeds, put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge of God after the image of Him that created him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10
Read the whole comment“…in the image of God, which is man in respect to his mind, which mind is “renewed in the knowledge” of God, “after the image of Him that created” man; “after His own image;” and so obtains wisdom, wherein is the contemplation of things eternal.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10
Read the whole comment“For, as a Christian, he is renewed after the image of God, by whom man was made after the image of God; but as a man he might be bad, he might be a pagan, he might be an idolater.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
Read the whole comment“But the human soul has this quality in common with the soul of the brute; those qualities rather are to be admired which I have stated, such as belong to the mind and intellect, wherein also it is renewed after the image of its Creator, after whose image man was formed.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, God made man after His own image on the sixth day, because in this sixth age is manifested the renewing of our mind through the gospel, after the image of Him who created us; and the water is turned into wine, that we may taste of Christ, now manifested in the law and the prophets.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For those are serpents, such as the Gospel intends, who put off old habits, in order to put on new manners: “Putting off the old man, together with his acts, and putting on the new man, made in the image of Him Who created him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“Therefore, “laying aside all these,” that is those things which we read of: “anger, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication;” as he also says below: “Let us, having put off the old man with his deeds, put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10.
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Basil the Great
“They did not “bear the image of the heavenly;” they did “bear about in the body the dying of Jesus;” they did not “put off the old man;” they did not “put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him which created him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…Having put off the old man with his doings, and put on the new man, which is being renewed unto the knowledge of God, after the image of Him that created him.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“This is the purpose for us of God, Who for us was made man and became poor, to raise our flesh, and recover His image, and remodel man, that we might all be made one in Christ, who was perfectly made in all of us all that He Himself is, that we might no longer be male and female, barbarian,…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Deportant ergo ipsi quoque iram, indignationem, vitium, maledictum, turpem sermonem ex ore suo, exuentes veterem hominem cum concupiscentiis, et induentes novum, qui renovatur in agnitionem, ad imaginem ejus, qui creavit ipsum.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 4, 10.
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