Nilus of Ancyra→Amphilochius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
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You asked me who is the old man, the one corrupted by the lusts, whom the divine Apostle [Paul] exhorts us to put off [cf. Ephesians 4:22]. We consider the old man to be something that has no substantial existence, yet is corrupted: a kind of idol of destruction, formed out of defiled and impious reckonings, and unlawful words, and unclean works, and painted, or compounded, or, as one might say, woven together to our harm.
You asked me who is the old man, the one corrupted by the lusts, whom the divine Apostle [Paul] exhorts us to put off [cf. Ephesians 4:22]. We consider the old man to be something that has no substantial existence, yet is corrupted: a kind of idol of destruction, formed out of defiled and impious reckonings, and unlawful words, and unclean works, and painted, or compounded, or, as one might say, woven together to our harm.
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