Ephesians 4:23 (WEB)
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Catechism · 1
“Healing the wounds of sin, the Holy Spirit renews us interiorly through a spiritual transformation.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 4:23.
Fathers and councils · 21
Athanasius of Alexandria
“But ‘we did not so learn Christ, if so be that we heard’ Him, and were taught from Him, ‘putting off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,’ and taking up ‘the new, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.’” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 20–24
Read the whole comment“Putting off the old man and his deeds, let us put on the new man, which is created in God,’ in humbleness of mind, and a pure conscience; in meditation of the law by night and by day.” — editor's note: Luke xii. 40; 1 Cor. v. 8; Ephes. iv. 22–24.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And in another place: “Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man which is created after God.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23.
Read the whole comment“And so the Apostle says again: “But be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man which is created according to God in truth and righteousness and holiness.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23, 24.
Read the whole comment“Who is he who is born of the Spirit, and is made Spirit, but he who is renewed in the Spirit of his mind?” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.14Conference VI
“Theodore: It is needful that one must either, as the Apostle says, “be renewed in the spirit of the mind,” and daily advance by “pressing forward to those things which are before,” or, if one neglects to do this, the sure result will be to go back, and become worse and worse.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23.
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Augustine of Hippo
“All who believe in Christ, who put off the old man, and put on the new, are a new creature.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–24.
Read the whole comment“For, giving the same admonition, he thus saith in another place: “As is the truth in Jesus, that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, him which is corrupt according to the lust of deception; but be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, him which after God is created.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 21–24. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“For that is done inwardly of which the same apostle speaks: “Put off the old man, and put on the new;” which he goes on to explain by saying, “Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–25
Read the whole comment“But further, does not the same blessed apostle say, “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, which is created after God;” and in another place more clearly, “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…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23, 24
Read the whole comment“He says again elsewhere: “Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put ye on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23, 24
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.
Read the whole comment““Be ye therefore renewed in the spirit of your mind,” and “understand what is the will of God, which is good, and acceptable, and perfect;” that, “rooted and grounded in love, ye may be able to comprehend, with…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 23.
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Tertullian
“Nay, rather, by the virtue of contemning food He was initiating “the new man” into “a severe handling” of “the old,” that He might show that (new man) to the devil, again seeking to tempt him by means of food, (to be) too strong for the whole power of hunger.” — editor's note: Comp. Eph. iv. 22, 23; and, for the meaning of sugillationem (“severe handling”), comp. 1 Cor. ix. 27, where St. Paul’s word ὑπωπιάζω (="I smite under the…
Read the whole comment“…the deceitful lusts; and to be renewed in the spirit of our mind; and to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,” (they maintain) that by here also making a distinction between the two substances, and applying the old one to the flesh and the new one to the spirit, he…” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–24.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“However, be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put ye on that new man, which is created according to God.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 21–24.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.20On Virginity
“Now just in the same way the man who is courting the spiritual alliance will first of all display himself, by the renewal of his mind, a young man, without a single touch of age upon him; next he will reveal a lineage rich in that in which it is a noble ambition to be rich, not priding…” — editor's note: See Eph. iv. 22, 23.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…renewed (not by dyeings and ornaments), but in the spirit of your mind; and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 20–24.
Read the whole comment“Renovamini autem spiritu mentis vestræ, et induatis novum hominem, qui creatus est secundum Deum in justitia et sanctitate veritatis,” ad Dei similitudinem.” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 20–24.
Read the whole comment“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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Cyprian of Carthage
“But be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, him who according to God is ordained in righteousness, and holiness, and truth.”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 22–24.
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Cross-references · 39
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Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.20.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.10.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.20.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.10.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIV.16.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.20 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.