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The Church: Kingdom of God

How are we going to drink from the new cup together with Christ in heaven (Matt. 26:29)?

Q530 · The Church: House of Salvation

Continuing his previous discourse, Origen says, “You see, therefore, that it is impossible for him to drink the new cup of the new life who still ‘is clothed by the old person with his deeds.’ ‘For no one,’ it says, ‘puts new wine into old wine skins.’ Therefore, if you want to drink from this ‘new wine,’ renew yourself and say, ‘If our outer person is destroyed, the inner person is renewed from day to day’”1069