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put: Colossians 3:12, Colossians 3:14, Job 29:14, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 59:17, Romans 13:12, Romans 13:14, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Corinthians 15:54, Galatians 3:27, Ephesians 4:24
the new: Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 18:31, Ezekiel 36:26, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15, Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 2:15, Ephesians 4:24, Revelation 21:5
renewed: Psalms 51:10, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 4:23, Hebrews 6:6
knowledge: John 17:3, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:5
after: Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:27, Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 4:23, Ephesians 4:24, 1 Peter 1:14, 1 Peter 1:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 5:1 - in the likeness Isaiah 19:25 - Blessed Zechariah 3:4 - and I will Matthew 22:11 - which Romans 6:4 - even Romans 6:6 - that our Romans 7:6 - serve 1 Corinthians 1:5 - and in 1 Corinthians 15:46 - that which is natural 2 Corinthians 4:16 - is Galatians 4:19 - Christ Ephesians 6:11 - Put Philippians 1:9 - in knowledge Titus 3:5 - renewing 1 Peter 3:4 - the hidden 2 Peter 1:4 - ye might 2 Peter 3:18 - knowledge
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And have put on the new man,.... Concerning which, and the putting it on, :-,
which is renewed in knowledge; this man, or principle of grace in the soul, is a new one, which never was there before; and there is a daily renovation of it in the spirit of the mind, by the Spirit of God; for as the outward man decays, the inward man, which is the same with this new man, is renewed day by day, increases in holiness and righteousness, grows in grace, and particularly in "knowledge"; light and knowledge of a man's self, of his lost state and condition by nature, of his need of Christ, and of his salvation, is what appears at the first formation of this new man; and the daily renovation of him lies in an increase of spiritual, experimental, and saving knowledge of God, and Christ, and divine things; and indeed, until a man becomes a new creature, he neither knows, nor is he capable of knowing, the things of the Spirit of God; so that this new man, or principle of grace, begins with spiritual knowledge, and is formed in order to it, and its increase lies in it:
after the image of him that created him; the new man; for this is a creation work, and so not man's, but God's; and is made not after the image of the first man, no not as innocent, and much less as fallen; but after the image of Christ, to which the elect of God are predestinated to he conformed, and which is stamped in regeneration; and more and more appears by every transforming view of Christ, and will be perfected in heaven, when they shall see him as he is, and be perfectly like him, who is not only the pattern, but the Creator of it, even the author and finisher of faith.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Which is renewed in knowledge - In Ephesians 4:24, it is said that the new man is “created after God in righteousness and true holiness.” In this place it is added that to the renewed soul knowledge is imparted, and it is made in that respect as man was when he was first created. This passage, in connection with Ephesians 4:24, proves that before man fell he was endowed with “righteousness, true holiness, and knowledge.” The knowledge here referred to, is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of God. Man was acquainted with his Creator. He resembled him in his capacity for knowledge. He was an intelligent being, and he had an acquaintance with the divine existence and perfections; compare the notes at Romans 5:12. But especially had he that knowledge which is the fear of the Lord; that knowledge of God which is the result of love. Piety, in the Scriptures, is often represented as the “knowledge” of God; see the notes at John 17:3; compare the notes at Ephesians 3:19.
After the image of him that created him - So as to resemble God. In knowledge he was made in the likeness of his Maker.%%
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. And have put on the new man — See on Romans 12:1-2 (note).
Is renewed in knowledge — IGNORANCE was the grand characteristic of the heathen state; KNOWLEDGE, of the Christian. The utmost to which heathenism could pretend was a certain knowledge of nature. How far this went, and how much it fell short of the truth, may be seen in the writings of Aristotle and Pliny. Christianity reveals God himself, the author of nature; or, rather, God has revealed himself, in the Christian system with which he has blessed mankind. Christianity teaches a man the true knowledge both of himself and of God; but it is impossible to know one's self but in the light of God; the famous γνωθισεαυτον, know thyself, was practicable only under the Christian religion.
After the image of him that created him — We have already seen that God made man in his own image; and we have seen in what that image consisted. Genesis 1:26, and on Ephesians 4:23; Ephesians 4:24. Does not the apostle refer here to the case of an artist, who wishes to make a perfect resemblance of some exquisite form or person? God in this case is the artist, man is the copy, and God himself the original from which this copy is to be taken. Thus, then, man is made by his Creator, not according to the image or likeness of any other being, but according to his own; the image τουκτισαντος, of the Creator. And as the Divine nature cannot exist in forms or fashions, moral qualities alone are those which must be produced. Hence the apostle, interpreting the words of Moses, says that the image in which man was made, and in which he must be remade, ανακαινουμενον, made anew, consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness.