Colossians 3:9 (WEB)
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
Fathers and councils · 23
Gregory of Nyssa
“…any trace of that which has waxed old, saying, “Having put off the old man with his deeds and his lusts, put on the new man which is created according to God,” and “If any man be in Christ,” he says, “he is a new creature: the old things are passed away, behold all things are become new:”) —for the maker of human…” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iii. 9, and Eph. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.31On the Making of Man
“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
“For their soul, tending towards what is worse, and descending to earthly lusts, has become a partaker in the same designation which belongs to these [lusts, viz., “earthly”], which, when the apostle commands us to lay aside, he says in the same Epistle, “Cast ye off the old man with his deeds.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9.
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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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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Col. 3:9.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“The black abyss of the well, methinks, represents the lowest parts of this universe, i. e. the earth, to which Jesus came at the sixth hour, that is, in the sixth age of mankind, the old age, as it were, of the old man, which we are bidden to put off, (Col. 3:9.) that we may put on the new.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Put off the old man with his doings, and quote that saying in the Canticles, I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on?” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9.
Read the whole comment“As soon, then, as ye entered, ye put off your tunic; and this was an image of putting off the old man with his deeds.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.18Conference XVII
“…your speech be yea, yea, nay, nay: but whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one;” and the Apostle also agrees with this: “And lie not one to another.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. v. 37; Col. iii. 9.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…to the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of this world, not according to Christ; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of Godhead in bodily shape.”” — editor's note: It would, I think, be unfair to construe this passage into an absolute condemnation of all the results of human activity, arrived at without any conscious…
Read the whole comment“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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Augustine of Hippo
“Which vices, as they belong to the old life and the old man, which we must put off, that we may put on the new man, it is well said, “I have grown old.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9, 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“…“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“And the Apostle Paul saith to thee, “Put ye off the old man with his deeds, and put ye on the new man.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 9; Eph. iv. 22–24.
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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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Clement of Alexandria
“For “to bring themselves into captivity,” and to slay themselves, putting to death “the old man, who is through lusts corrupt,” and raising the new man from death, “from the old conversation,” by abandoning the passions, and becoming free of sin, both the Gospel and the apostle enjoin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 6, 7; 2 Cor. x. 5; Eph. iv. 22–24; Col. iii. 8, 9, etc.
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