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Repristination

 
"Old Princeton theologian B B Warfield used the striking word repristination to sum up Paul’s way of describing regeneration. The word means ‘restoration to an original state’. The soul is made pristine or pure again. This alerts us to the fact that new birth involves restoring God’s image in us. Christ has come so that his people might also be sons of God:."
 
From my book What the Bible teaches about being born again, p 38

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