23. be renewed--The Greek (ananeousthai) implies
"the continued renewal in the youth of the new man." A different
Greek word (anakainousthai) implies "renewal
from the old state."
in the spirit of your mind--As there is no Greek for "in," which
there is at
Eph 4:17,
"in the vanity of their mind," it is better to translate, "By
the Spirit of your mind," that is, by your new spiritual nature; the
restored and divinely informed leading principle of the mind. The
"spirit" of man in New Testament is only then used in its proper sense,
as worthy of its place and governing functions, when it is one spirit
with the Lord. The natural, or animal man, is described as "not having
the Spirit"
(Jude 19)
[ALFORD]. Spirit is not in this sense attributed
to the unregenerate
(1Th 5:23).
JFB.
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