Titus 1:1-10, “New” Things in Kind/Time (2)

We completed “kainos” (things new in kind or substance).  Now “neos” (things new in time).  Be sure to note what is on both lists.

neos (n):

·       Mt. 9:17; Mk. 5:22; Lk. 5:37-39: The wine is new in time; the wineskins kainos.

·       Lk. 15:12-13: In the story of the Prodigal the younger son is neos.

·       Lk. 22:26: He that is greatest, let him be as the younger.

·       Jn. 21:18: Jesus reminds Peter, when he was younger he did as he pleased.

·       Ac. 5:6: The young men carried out the body of Ananias.

·       1 Cor. 5:7: Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump.

·       Col. 3:10: Put on the new (“man” is italicized, not in the text but supplied by the translators) who is renewed in knowledge acc. to the image of the Creator.

·       1 Tim. 5:1,2,11,14; Titus 2:4,6: Speaks of younger men, women, widows.

·       Heb. 12:24: Jesus Mediator of a new covenant.

·       1 Pt. 5:5: Let the younger submit to the elders.

Now, let us consider these terms.  First, in Rev. 21, it appears that the “new heavens and new earth” are a new creation, not just the latest in time. But if you are wondering about the differences between the two words, consider where they appear together in the same context.  The wine is new in the sense of the latest batch; the wineskins must be a completely new creation; you can’t just patch the old and reuse it.  The “New Covenant” is both something substantially new, so that the old is “vanishing away.”  Yet, it is also newer in the sense of time.  In Heb. 12:24 the writer is contrasting Mt. Sinai with Mt. Zion, the older and the newer in time, so Jesus is Mediator of a “new in time” covenant.  In Heb. 9:15 Jesus is Mediator of a “new in substance” covenant because the contrast is with the older covenant that didn’t work; it needs a total replacement.  In Mark the “tongues” are new in kind, not just time. Thus, in Ac. 2:4 they are “other” tongues in the sense of being unlike anything the speakers had ever known.  In Romans our “new” walk is something unlike we have ever done.  Thus, we should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk (Eph. 4:17).