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The Danger of a Numb Conscience
Commentators emphasize that being 'past feeling' describes a terrifying spiritual state where the conscience becomes numb. It's a condition where a person loses the ability to feel the moral pain and guilt that should accompany sin. Scholars describe this as having a 'cauterized' conscience or an atrophied ability to respond to moral stimuli, which is seen as a precursor to total self-abandonment.
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Ephesians
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Albert Barnes
On Ephesians 4:19
18th Century
Theologian
Who being past feeling. Wholly hardened in sin. There is a total lack of all emotion on moral subjects. This is an accurate description of…
AT Robertson
On Ephesians 4:19
Being past feeling (απηλγηκοτες). Perfect active participle of απαλγεω, old word to cease to feel pain, only here in N.T.
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Charles Ellicott
On Ephesians 4:19
19th Century
Bishop
Who being past feeling . . .—We note that St. Paul, passing lightly over the intellectual loss, dwells on the moral with …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Ephesians 4:19
19th Century
Preacher
Have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Oh, dear friends, we must separate from eve…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Ephesians 4:19
People like these have “lost all sensitivity.” They can no longer respond to moral stimuli. Their consciences are so atrophied that sin registers n…
John Calvin
On Ephesians 4:19
16th Century
Theologian
Who being past feeling. The account that had been given of natural depravity is followed by a description of the worst of all evils, broug…
John Gill
On Ephesians 4:19
17th Century
Pastor
Who being past feeling
Their consciences being cauterized or seared as with a red hot iron, which is the consequence…
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 …