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being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
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A Hard Heart, Not a Weak Mind
Commentators stress that spiritual blindness isn't an intellectual problem but a moral one. The verse traces the 'darkened understanding' back to 'the hardening of their heart.' Scholars explain that the core issue is a heart that is resistant and calloused toward God. This hardness, described with a medical term for a callus, makes a person impervious to spiritual truth, regardless of their natural intelligence.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Having the understanding darkened. This is because they were alienated from the true God, and particularly because of "the blindness of th…
Being darkened (εσκοτωμενο οντες). Periphrastic perfect passive participle of σκοτοω, old verb from σκοτος (darkness), in N.T. onl…
19th Century
Anglican
Having the understanding darkened. The first result of this vanity noted is intellectual. They are darkened in the un…
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Baptist
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the unde…
This reprehensible attitude is traced to its source. Such people are impeded by a mental fog that blots out the divine light. They are cut off from…
16th Century
Protestant
Being alienated from the life of God. The life of God may either mean what is considered life in the sight of God, as in that pas…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Having the understanding darkened Not that the natural faculty of the understanding is lost in men, nor the understa…
The apostle charged the Ephesians in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus that having professed the gospel, they should not be like the …
