Verse 17
17. Therefore Rather, so that, in accordance with these new aspects.
The newness which the man sees in all things else is truly in himself. For as, according to 2 Corinthians 5:14, all are dead from the primitive Edenic life, and, 2 Corinthians 5:15, are made alive by Christ’s death, so this seeing all things as new is the effect of that new consciousness of a renovated life.
All things are become new Visibly to us, because we are new. And this our consciousness of renewal is a gleam of the grand regeneration initiated by the cross of Christ and consummated at Revelation 21:1. To say, with Meyer and others, that this is rabbinical language, is pitiable. It comes, as phrase, from Isaiah 65:17; as thought, it comes from the great fact that Christ’s cross, conditionally, regenerates the man and brings forth a new world. To compare with this the language of the rabbins, that a proselyte was a new creature, belittles the great truth.
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