Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 38
Eph. ii. 10.
It is one thing to make (as a workman), another thing to create. But he assigns both to One. Man is the workmanship of the Creator. He therefore who made man (at first), created him also in Christ. As touching the substance of nature, He “made” him; as touching the work of grace, He “created” him. Look also at what follows in connection with these words: “Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which has the name of circumcision in the flesh made by the hand—that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,5984 5984 Literally, “the covenants and their promise.”
having no hope, and without God in the world.”5985 5985
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 51
Eph. ii. 10.
“one new man, making peace” (really new, and really man—no phantom—but new, and newly born of a virgin by the Spirit of God), “that He might reconcile both unto God”5997 5997
Anf-03 vi.iii.viii Pg 6
i.e. Man. There may be an allusion to Eph. ii. 10, “We are His worksmanship,” and to Ps. cl. 4.
to produce, by means of “holy hands,”8602 8602
Anf-01 vi.ii.vi Pg 26
Ezek. xi. 19, Ezek. xxxvi. 26.
because He1518 1518
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 98
Ezek. xxxvi. 26.
and again, “And remember ye not the things of old: behold, I make new things which shall now arise, and ye shall know it; and I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in a dry land, to give drink to my chosen people, my people whom I have acquired, that they may show forth my praise,”4336 4336
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiii Pg 14
Col. iii. 10.
but he points out that we should lay aside our former conversation, that which waxes old and becomes corrupt; and for this reason he goes on to say, “And put ye on the new man, that which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of Him who created him.” In this, therefore, that he says, “which is renewed in knowledge,” he demonstrates that he, the selfsame man who was in ignorance in times past, that is, in ignorance of God, is renewed by that knowledge which has respect to Him. For the knowledge of God renews man. And when he says, “after the image of the Creator,” he sets forth the recapitulation of the same man, who was at the beginning made after the likeness of God.
