familiar with the application of this concept to people, even in noneschatological contexts (e.g. God is said to make men “new creatures” when he heals them of their infirmities; Str-B, Matthäus, 420–23), but in the tradition stemming back to Jesus the eschatological element was constant. In Matt 19:28 the familiar βασιλεία is replaced by παλινγενεσία, “regeneration,” Matthew’s equivalent of “new world” or “new age.” The LXX renders Job 14:14, “All the days of my service I would wait, till my release