Withering And Renewal

Ὅρα εἰ δύναται τὸ ̓Επαλαιώθην ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς μου καὶ ἑτέραν νόησιν ἔχειν. Ὅτε σὺν δικαιοσύνῃ ἐζων, ἐνέαζον ἀεὶ ζῶν κατὰ τὴν καινότητα τοῦ πνεύματος καὶ τὴν καινὴν διαθήκην· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐξ ἀπροσεξίας ἡμετέρας μετέστην τοῦ ἐπαινετῶς ζῆν παρὰ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς γενάμενος, πεπαλαίωμαι κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκείνου παλαιότητα, οὖν ἐκδύσασθαι Παῦλος παραινεῖ, φαῦλος δὲ βίος οὕτος, ἵν' ̓ἐνδυσώμεθα τὸν νέον ἄνθρωπον τὸν κατὰ θεὸν κτισθέντα ἐν ὁσιότητι καὶ γνώσει τῆς ἀληθείας, οὕτος δέ ἐστιν ὁ βίος ὁ ἀκηλίδωτος. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Ψαλμούς, Ψαλμος Ϛ´ Source: Migne PG 39.1177c-d

Observe that it is possible that 'I have withered among my enemies' 1 has another meaning. 'When I lived righteously, I was always young living according to the new spirit and testament, but since, because of our sluggishness, I was cut off from the worthy type of life, being among enemies, I have withered according to the old age of man,' which Paul exhorts us to cast off, the life of vice, so that we might be endowed with the new man, who is created according to God in holiness and knowledge of the truth, 2 for this is the immaculate life. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on The Psalms, from Psalm 6 1 Ps 6.8 2 Ephes 4.24