Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on kthe new man, which after God is created in righteousness and 8true holiness.
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
καὶ ἐνδύσασθαι τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν κατὰ Θεὸν κτισθέντα ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ὁσιότητι τῆς ἀληθείας.
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k:
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
8:
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
the same metaphor of a garment as before, to show the intimateness of the new man with us, and its being an ornament to us.
i.e. a new disposition or constitution of the whole man, called the new creature, 2Co 5:17, and a divine nature, 2Pe 1:4.
after God’s image.
either righteousness may relate to the second table, and
to the first, and so both contain our duty to man and to God; or righteousness may imply that Divine principle in us, whereby we perform our whole duty to God and the creature, and holiness that which denieth all mixture of corruption in onr duty to God and man.
sincere and sound. As
are opposed to lusts, Eph 4:22, so true here, to deceitful there.