...our mind. By the spirit of the mind we are renewed to fulfill in experience what was accomplished in the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man. The putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man are accomplished facts. Now we...

...outward reformation or an outward movement, but it is a transformation of our living from within. How is the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man accomplished? The key is in verse 23, which says, "And that you be renewed in the spirit of your...

...noteworthy, in that a definition of regeneration may be gathered from it. For it contains two parts : the putting off of the old man, and the putting on of the new; and these Paul here mentions. It is also to be noticed that the old man is distinguished by his works,...

...satisfaction is rendered to divine justice. - Now conversion is an exit from evil and an entry into goodness, "the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new,"6* since the subject dies unto sin (and thereby also the subject of all inclinations that lead...

...etc., are applicable to this concrete, historic humanity (cf., eg, 2 Cor. 5:16; Gal. 6:15; Tit. 3:5). The putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new is therefore not only a choice of faith and a sacramental incorporation in baptism, but is also intended...

...satisfaction is rendered to divine justice. - Now conversion is an exit from evil and an entry into goodness, "the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new,"6« since the subject dies unto sin (and thereby also the subject of all inclinations that lead...

...reference to baptism.65 On another occasion Augustine describes the taking of the monastic tonsure as the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new. The latter application is particularly common in twelfth-century writing. Peter the Venerable and Hugh...

...it grows from within. How do we know that it grows from within? You see this in Ephesians 4. Between the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man, it says, "And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind." Is this not something inward? This...

...feeling. It is by this inner feeling that we know the spirit of our mind. Then we are able to realize the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man. THE INNER SENSE BEING RELATED TO LIFE Romans 8:6 says, "For the mind set on the flesh is death,...

...temptations) . . . Now a change of heart is a departure from evil and an entrance into goodness, the laying off of the old man and the putting on of the new, since the man becomes dead unto sin (and therefore to all inclinations so far as they lead thereto)...