new man
Here the "new man" is not the individual believer, but the church, considered as the body of Christ in the sense of (Ephesians 1:22); (Ephesians 1:23); (1 Corinthians 12:12); (1 Corinthians 12:13); (Colossians 3:10); (Colossians 3:11).
( See Scofield) - (Hebrews 12:23).