More early second century literature talking about becoming the new human being in Christ. The fulfillment of Christ death and resurrection lies in the mystery of Christ as we are made into a new human being having been baptized into Christ. "It is not I who lives but rather Christ who lives in me" (cf. Gal 2.20).
Letter to Diognetus 2.1:
Come then, clear yourself of all prejudice which occupies your mind, and throw aside the custom which deceives you, and become as it were a new man from the beginning (εξ
αρχης καινος ανθρωπος), as one, as you yourself also admitted, who is about to listen to a new word (λογου
καινου).
Letter to Diognetus 11.4:
This one was from the beginning, the one newly appeared and found to be old, and is every young, being born in the hearts of the saints.
(ουτος ο απ αρχης ο καινος φανεις και παλαιος ευρεθεις και παντοτε νεος εν αγιων καρδιας γεννωμενος)
Letter to Diognetus 10.6:
Whoever takes up the burden of his neighbour, and wishes to help another, who is worse off in that in which he is the stronger, and by ministering to those in need the things which he has received and hold from God, becomes a god (θεος γινεται) to those who receive them-this man is an imitator of God (ουτος μιμητης εστι θεου).
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