Rom 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
If we are to understand either those aspirations or the failure to attain them, we must continue our effort to understand the nature of this covenant - making people with its deep need for newness and for liberation from oldness in religion, in politics, and in personal life, as well as the moral predicaments the search for newness and liberation so often generated. (religion-online.org)
Although the function of allegory is to manifest the newness of the Gospel in the oldness of the letter, this newness vanishes if it is not a daily newness, if it is not new hic et nunc. (religion-online.org)