The meaning of RENEGADE is a person who changes his religion and goes to another religion. In this work renegade is used as a simile: it means to say all men are renegades - how? All men are born innocent: as children we are all innocent. We do not know the outside world; we are inwardly glad ourselves. But as we grow up, we know the world; we feel joy at the outside world. We come to know beauty, we come to have ambition. We come love and friendship, and the like. Thus when we enter life ...