Col. 3:10

And have put on the new man ... renewed.

While in ordinary usage kainos and neos often appear interchangeable, their

distinctive meanings must be remembered.  Ephesians 4 and Colossians 3 are

not dealing with dispensational distinctions but with the new man as

contrasted with the old.  Where the word kainos is used, the word `created'

follows, and where neos is used the word `renewed' follows, each passage

keeping close to the primary meaning of the words translated `new', a silent

testimony to the accuracy of Scriptural language.  The only reference that is

specially dispensational in intention is that of Ephesians 2:15.  This is a

part of the subject introduced into Ephesians 2 under the figure of the

`Middle Wall' and is treated in its place in the article of that name (p,

12).  See also article entitled New (p. 105).

The perfect man.  Where Ephesians 2:15 and 4:24 use the word

anthropos, `man', Ephesians 4:13 uses the Greek word aner.  These two words

differ, anthropos means not only a man in the sense of a male, but any

individual of either sex of the human species.  It is a generic name.  Aner

means an adult male person, and never means a woman.  Aner occurs 213 times

in the New Testament and is translated `fellow' once, `husband' fifty times,

`man' one hundred and fifty -six times, and `sir' six times.

Here are the occurrences of aner in Ephesians.

It occurs seven times

as follows:

Unto a perfect man, unto the measure ...

Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands.

The husband is the head of the wife.

So let the wives be to their own husbands.

Husbands, love your wives.

So ought men to love their wives.

See that she reverence her husband.

The apostle has used anthropos nine times in Ephesians, yet when he

wished to speak of the Church as the perfect man, he goes out of his way to

use a word that he uses six times afterwards for `husband'.  It is,

therefore, evident, if Scriptural language is accurate, that such a Church

cannot be `the Bride', for it would be incongruous to speak of a Church which

is the perfect `Husband' as a `Bride'.  By observing the distinction, a

fuller conception of the purpose of the ages is gained.  Just as at the

beginning man was placed in a garden and provided with a wife, so in the

realization of that typical fact, the Church of the Bride, will be associated

with (but not confused with) the Church of the Body, the Church which is the

perfect Husband.  Those who see no other Church than the Bride are looking

forward to a Paradise where `Eve' will have no companion.  If it be objected

`Christ is the Bridegroom', we must remember that He also is `The Head of the

Body', and moreover, the Bride is never called the Bride of Christ, but the

Bride of the Lamb.  See for further features the article entitled Bride and

The Body1.

Two Greek words are translated `manifestation', phanerosis (1 Cor.

12:7; 2 Cor. 4:2 and apokalupsis (Rom. 8:19).  We are not here concerned with

the word translated `manifest' in such a passage as 1 Corinthians 15:27,