Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Does He not turn away from the old state of things? And when by Isaiah He proclaims how "old things were passed away; and, behold, all things, which I am making, are new".
Now, if the Creator indeed promised that "the ancient things should pass away".
"If therefore any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old; things are passed away; behold, all things are become new; ".
emanated from the Creator, who, while predicting that "old things were to pass away "and that He would "make all things new".
Which was to impart to the waters its own purities-thenceforth, whatever flesh (is) "in Christ".
The apostle unteaches, suppressing the continuance of the Old Testament which has been buried in Christ, and establishing that of the New. But if there is a new creation in Christ,
