The Old Man and the New. Those who are now members of the true Israel are no longer to walk as Gentiles, i.e. in the vanity of mind, the darkness, the alienation from the Divine life which springs from ignorance and obtuseness of heart, and issues in insensate abandonment to lascivious, impure, and greedy ways. Not such is the lesson of Christ! Those who have heard His voice and in Him been taught the truth truth as it exists in Jesus must renounce the old man of their former behaviour, the perishing man who is governed by deceitful lusts; they must be renewed in the spirit of their understanding; they must clothe themselves in the new man, the man after the Divine pattern, God's new creation in righteousness and holiness of truth,

Ephesians 4:21. Truth as displayed in Jesus in His life upon earth. The name Jesus without the title Christ occurs here only in the epistle. [ Cf. Exp., Feb. 1912. A. J. G.]

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