“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;”
To be made new in the attitude of your minds — the transformation: ananeōō ('be made new,' rejuvenated) of the pneuma ('spirit') of the nous ('mind'), the interior renewal preceding behavioral change.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 4:23
“And that you be renewed,” says he, “in the spirit of your mind.” In order that no one may suppose that, whereas he speaks of old and new, he is introducing a different person, observe his expression, “That ye be renewed.” To be renewed is, when the selfsame thing which has grown old is renewed, changed from one thing into the other. So that the subject indeed is the same, but the change is in that which is accidental. Just as the body indeed is the same, and the change in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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