All Commentaries on Ephesians 4:23 Go To Ephesians 4
John Chrysostom
AD 407
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 that which is accidental, so is it here. How then is the renewal to take place? In the spirit of your mind, says he. Whosoever therefore has the Spirit, will perform no old deed, for the Spirit will not endure old deeds. In the spirit, says he, of your mind, that is, in the spirit which is in your mind.
