and “renewal” may indicate some sort of balance of continuity and discontinuity with what was before. There is a continuity of the subject; but fundamental attitudes must be changed and new perspectives taken up. In view of the εἰς τὸ … clause, the renewal is necessary for Jew as well as Gentile (see below). The fact that the parallel uses of the verb in Paul (2 Cor 4:16 and Col 3:10) are in the present tense reinforces the observations of the preceding paragraph. The immediate source of the renewal