Verse 10
10. And have put on the new man The regenerate nature, attained in the new birth, which is a new creation. Their action was a free submission of themselves to God’s working in them by his renewing power. This state, utterly incompatible at the outset with a life of selfishness and impurity, is one of growth and development. It is a characteristic of the new man that it is continually being renewed more and more after the image of Christ, the creator of this new man, who in himself (Colossians 1:15) “the image of the invisible God.” His likeness is more or less perfectly created in every regenerate heart.
In knowledge Rather, unto full knowledge, namely, of God. As the new birth gives us our first knowledge of him, growth increases our knowledge. As Olshausen (followed by Alford) points out, the intellectual aspect of the divine image is here put forward, while Ephesians 4:24 exhibits its ethical character. Perfect knowledge of God is, then, the end of the new creation.
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