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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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Albert Barnes
On Ephesians 4:18
18th Century
Theologian
Having the understanding darkened. This is because they were alienated from the true God, and particularly because of "the blindness of th…
AT Robertson
On Ephesians 4:18
Being darkened (εσκοτωμενο οντες). Periphrastic perfect passive participle of σκοτοω, old verb from σκοτος (darkness), in N.T. onl…
Charles Ellicott
On Ephesians 4:18
19th Century
Bishop
Having the understanding darkened. The first result of this vanity noted is intellectual. They are darkened in the un…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Ephesians 4:17–19
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Ephesians 4:18
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…
John Calvin
On Ephesians 4:18
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Ephesians 4:18
17th Century
Pastor
Having the understanding darkened
Not that the natural faculty of the understanding is lost in men, nor the understa…
Matthew Henry
On Ephesians 4:17–24
17th Century
Minister
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 …