[Greek] καινός (kainos), [Latin] novos, [German] neu: new; 44 scriptures
St. Vincent lived in the early 400’s A.D. He recognized novelties, human traditions, and innovation in the Catholic Church. This saint prophetically tells us to hold on to antiquity (Tradition).
Background information:
Greek Hellenism: This term means new, fresh, newly invented, novel, strange gods, innovations, little of anything new, and nothing to be surprised at.
Euripides’ Medea 298: “If you bring novel wisdom to fools, you will be regarded as useless, not wise.”
Plato’s Euthryphro 3b: “So he has brought the indictment against you, for making innovations in religion, knowing slanders on such subjects are readily accepted by the people.”
Old Testament: This term means new, recent, not old, not previously known, and different.
New Testament: This term means new and fresh. Kainos indicates quality. Neo indicates age
Mt.9:17: “People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” (New wine indicates newly aged [neos] wine. Fresh [kainos] wineskins indicate better quality wineskins. Jesus’ teaching (new wine) cannot be contained in Judaism and the Law (old wineskins). There is an incompatability in combining the old with the new.)
Mk.1:27: “All were amazed and asked one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey Him.'”
- Amazement and astonishment: