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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The new man is the will according to God; it does not grow old, but more and more blossoms and grows in the knowledge of God and of divine things, always and ever appearing more youthful and yet all the more strengthened, the fuller the knowledge it acquires and the greater the things of which it is deemed worthy. That is, Christ. Christ did not come into old age, but was always so beautiful that it is impossible to express, "fairer than the sons of men" (Ps. 45:2). For He committed no sin, which ages and corrupts. …
Irenaeus
But the apostle himself also, being one who had been formed in a womb, and had issued thence, wrote to us, and confessed in his Epistle to the Philippians that "to live in the flesh was the fruit of [his] work;" thus expressing himself. Now the final result of the work of the Spirit is the salvation of the flesh. For what other visible fruit is there of the invisible Spirit, than the rendering of the flesh mature and capable of incorruption? …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
The new nature or self is the mind, renewed from within, because before grace our mind is subject within to sin, and when it is renewed by grace it becomes new: "Your youth is renewed like the eagle's" (Ps 103:5); "For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation" (Gal 6:15). This new creation is renewing grace. Yet, there is an oldness that still remains in our flesh. …
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