SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:24
y vestir el nuevo hombre que es creado conforme a Dios en justicia y en santidad de la verdad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 4:24
Verse 24. Put on the new man] Get a new nature; for in Christ Jesus-under the Christian dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, hut a new creation. Therefore ye must be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Which after God is created in righteousness] Here is certainly an allusion to the creation of man. Moses tells us, Gen. i. 27, that God created man in his own image; that is, God was the model according to which he was formed in the spirit of his mind. St. Paul says here that they should put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, or, osiothti thv alhqeiav, in the holiness of truth.
Both certainly refer to the same thing, and the one illustrates the other.
From the apostle we learn what Moses meant by the image of God; it was righteousness and the truth of holiness. See the note on Gen. i. 26. It is not this or the other degree of moral good which the soul is to receive by Jesus Christ, it is the whole image of God; it is to be formed kata qeou, according to God; the likeness of the Divine Being is to be traced upon his soul, and he is to bear that as fully as his first father Adam bore it in the beginning.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 24. And that ye put on the new man , &c.] Which some understand of Jesus Christ, who is truly and really man, and a new or extraordinary one, ( Jeremiah 31:22) and as such is God's creature, and is made after his image, and which appears in his perfect holiness and righteousness; and the phrase of putting on well agrees with him, ( Romans 13:14 Galatians 3:27) whose righteousness is a garment, pure and spotless, and which is put on by the hand of faith: though rather by the new man is meant, the new nature, the new principle, or work of grace in the soul, elsewhere called a new creature; and it bears this name in opposition to, and distinction from the old man, or corruption of nature, before spoken of; and because it is de noro, or anew, put into the hearts of men; it is not what was in them naturally; nor is it any old principle renewed, or wrought up in another and better form; but it is something that is infused, that was never there before: and because it is new in all its parts; such who have it, have new hearts and new spirits given unto them; they have new eyes to see with, and new ears to hear with, and new hands to handle and work with, and new feet to walk with; and they live a new life and conversation: so the Jews says of a man that truly repents of sin, and does not return to it, that he is dj jya , a new man f52 : now to put on this new man, is not to make ourselves new creatures; for this is not by the power of man, but by the Spirit of God; this is God's work, and not man's; it is he who made us at first, remakes us, and not we ourselves; besides, these Ephesians the apostle writes to, were already made new men, or new creatures; but to put on the new man, is to walk in our lives and conversations agreeably to the new man, or work of grace upon the soul; as to put off the old man, respects the former conversation, or a not walking as formerly, and agreeably to the dictates of corrupt nature, so to put on the new man, is to walk according to the principles of grace and holiness formed in the soul: and of this new man it is further said, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness ; the principle of the soul is created, and therefore is not the effect of man's power, which cannot create; it is peculiar to God only to create; it is a creature, and therefore not to be trusted in, and depended on; for not grace, but the author of grace, is the object of trust: it is created after God; by his power, according to his mind and will, and after his image, and in his likeness; which greatly consists in righteousness and true holiness; called true, in opposition to the typical and ceremonial holiness of the Jews, and to the pretended holiness of hypocrites; and denotes the truth and genuineness of the Spirit's work of sanctification upon the heart; unless this should rather be considered as the effect of his grace upon the soul; for so the words may be rendered, unto righteousness and true holiness; for the new man is of such a nature, and so formed, as to tend to acts of righteousness and holiness, and to engage men to the performance of them: some copies read, in righteousness, and holiness, and truth; and so the Ethiopic version seems to have read.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-24 - The apostle charged the Ephesians in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus, that having professed the gospel, they should not be a the unconverted Gentiles, who walked in vain fancies and carna affections. Do not men, on every side, walk in the vanity of their minds? Must not we then urge the distinction between real and nomina Christians? They were void of all saving knowledge; they sat in darkness, and loved it rather than light. They had a dislike and hatre to a life of holiness, which is not only the way of life God require and approves, and by which we live to him, but which has some likenes to God himself in his purity, righteousness, truth, and goodness. The truth of Christ appears in its beauty and power, when it appears as in Jesus. The corrupt nature is called a man; like the human body, it is of divers parts, supporting and strengthening one another. Sinfu desires are deceitful lusts; they promise men happiness, but rende them more miserable; and bring them to destruction, if not subdued an mortified. These therefore must be put off, as an old garment, a filth garment; they must be subdued and mortified. But it is not enough to shake off corrupt principles; we must have gracious ones. By the ne man, is meant the new nature, the new creature, directed by a ne principle, even regenerating grace, enabling a man to lead a new lif of righteousness and holiness. This is created, or brought forth by God's almighty power.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 ενδυσασθαι 1746 5670 τον 3588 καινον 2537 ανθρωπον 444 τον 3588 κατα 2596 θεον 2316 κτισθεντα 2936 5685 εν 1722 δικαιοσυνη 1343 και 2532 οσιοτητι 3742 της 3588 αληθειας 225
Vincent's NT Word Studies
24. New man (kainon). See on Matt. xxvi. 29.
Created (ktisqenta). See on ch. ii. 10.
In righteousness and true holiness (en dikiaiosunh kai osiothti thv alhqeiav). Rev., correctly, in righteousness and holiness of truth. See on Luke i. 75. Truth. Opposed to deceit, ver. 22, and likewise personified. Righteousness and holiness are attributes of truth.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
4:24 {Put on} (endusasqai). First aorist middle infinitive of enduw (-nw), for which see #Col 3:10. {The new man} (ton kainon anqrwpon). "The brand-new (see #2:15) man," though ton neon in #Col 3:10. {After God} (kata qeon). After the pattern God, the new birth, the new life in Christ, destined to be like God in the end (#Ro 8:29).
