Old man and new man
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the new man · the old man
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1 expressionthe old man and the new man1 mention
De Carnis Resurrectione (Latin)
For this will be the worldly life which he says is the old man crucified with Christ — not the corporeality, but the morality.
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Stromata
The Pauline contrast of old and new man, reinterpreted by Clement as obedience versus disobedience rather than as rejecting generation.
And Tatian too separates the old man and the new, but not as we say.
and by "old" and "new" he speaks not with reference to generation and regeneration, but with reference to the life that is in disobedience and the life that is in obedience.
De Carnis Resurrectione
Pauline language of the 'old man' and 'new man', argued to denote a moral rather than substantial (fleshly) distinction.
For this will be the worldly life which he says is the old man crucified with Christ — not the corporeality, but the morality.
" Therefore those who reckon the flesh the old man — why do they not hasten death for themselves, that, the old man laid aside, they may meet the precepts of the apostle?